Hi All,
Does anyone have experience or advice for moving a person with dementia back to the UK?
My Dad has lived in France for 30 years. His doctor is asking if we will move him back to the UK as that is my Dad's preference (and mine). My Dad's condition is deteriorating and it is apparent that he needs more care to support living at home and this may not be an option soon.
I would love to be able to move him to the UK but there are obstacles - he has no savings, no property to sell, no UK address, no GP and he is receiving chemo for cancer. I have only just returned to the UK myself and I am trying to understand the system.
He is unable to stay with family, I cannot see how he would be allowed to rent a flat as he is unable to understand finances, gets easily confused and lost even in familiar places . The only way I can see is to pay for private nursing home in order to get him an address in a safe place, a GP and assessed for financial and healthcare needs. His finances may be able to stretch to a couple of months of private care but I worry that he may not be offered a place in a state funded place (if they have a bed). And then what happens?
Has anyone had a similar experience?
I feel the care he is getting in France is good but he is far away and he will inevitably begin to lose the ability to speak French. As it is his preference to return to the UK I feel I really need to help him achieve that.
Any insight or suggestion as to how I should approach this would be fab!
Does anyone have experience or advice for moving a person with dementia back to the UK?
My Dad has lived in France for 30 years. His doctor is asking if we will move him back to the UK as that is my Dad's preference (and mine). My Dad's condition is deteriorating and it is apparent that he needs more care to support living at home and this may not be an option soon.
I would love to be able to move him to the UK but there are obstacles - he has no savings, no property to sell, no UK address, no GP and he is receiving chemo for cancer. I have only just returned to the UK myself and I am trying to understand the system.
He is unable to stay with family, I cannot see how he would be allowed to rent a flat as he is unable to understand finances, gets easily confused and lost even in familiar places . The only way I can see is to pay for private nursing home in order to get him an address in a safe place, a GP and assessed for financial and healthcare needs. His finances may be able to stretch to a couple of months of private care but I worry that he may not be offered a place in a state funded place (if they have a bed). And then what happens?
Has anyone had a similar experience?
I feel the care he is getting in France is good but he is far away and he will inevitably begin to lose the ability to speak French. As it is his preference to return to the UK I feel I really need to help him achieve that.
Any insight or suggestion as to how I should approach this would be fab!