Hi there,
Am hoping for some advice (and perhaps some therapy!). I'm sorry... This might be quite a long post.
After receiving 8 hours of self-funded care a day for 2 years, my grandmother was placed in care following a social services emergency care order. She was placed in care as she was not going to sleep at night, and ended up knocking on her neighbours' doors at 5.30am thinking it was the evening. She had no idea where she was and that she had done this, and would return 10 minutes later despite my parents phoning her and them reassuring her. She was also leaving home and walk up and down the street, and had ransacked her bedroom in the night, ripping curtains off the poles.
She was incredibly aggressive when placed in a care home, and after 2 failed attempts she has ended up in a psychiatric assessment unit where she has settled and is much calmer. The staff have assessed her to have no short term memory whatsoever, and have assessed her care need at 24hrs a day (she tried to make tea with a toaster).
Mum and dad have found her a lovely care home, and she was due to be moved but social services assessed her for discharge and decided she was able to make her own decisions and that she wanted to go home. The official report they prepared states that she claims she has not been consulted about going into a care home (untrue) and that my parents have also always wanted her in a care home to get her money (again, untrue). On the back of the 2 hour assessment in order to prepare this report, the social worker has judged her to be fit to make her own choices, and not a risk to herself. The psych unit have said that if 24 hr care is in place, she could go home. Social services have therefore said she should not be discharged to a care home but to her own home, with 24 hour care she will pay for herself (despite all funds running out in 2 months anyway).
As she has really enjoyed being with other people over the last few weeks, this is clearly not the choice any of her family feel will be of benefit to her, but it doesn't seem like social services are interested in our views at all. All they keep repeating is 'we are acting in her best interest'. Does anyone have any advice, or have a similar situation currently ongoing?
Any help is gratefully received..... Thank you.
Am hoping for some advice (and perhaps some therapy!). I'm sorry... This might be quite a long post.
After receiving 8 hours of self-funded care a day for 2 years, my grandmother was placed in care following a social services emergency care order. She was placed in care as she was not going to sleep at night, and ended up knocking on her neighbours' doors at 5.30am thinking it was the evening. She had no idea where she was and that she had done this, and would return 10 minutes later despite my parents phoning her and them reassuring her. She was also leaving home and walk up and down the street, and had ransacked her bedroom in the night, ripping curtains off the poles.
She was incredibly aggressive when placed in a care home, and after 2 failed attempts she has ended up in a psychiatric assessment unit where she has settled and is much calmer. The staff have assessed her to have no short term memory whatsoever, and have assessed her care need at 24hrs a day (she tried to make tea with a toaster).
Mum and dad have found her a lovely care home, and she was due to be moved but social services assessed her for discharge and decided she was able to make her own decisions and that she wanted to go home. The official report they prepared states that she claims she has not been consulted about going into a care home (untrue) and that my parents have also always wanted her in a care home to get her money (again, untrue). On the back of the 2 hour assessment in order to prepare this report, the social worker has judged her to be fit to make her own choices, and not a risk to herself. The psych unit have said that if 24 hr care is in place, she could go home. Social services have therefore said she should not be discharged to a care home but to her own home, with 24 hour care she will pay for herself (despite all funds running out in 2 months anyway).
As she has really enjoyed being with other people over the last few weeks, this is clearly not the choice any of her family feel will be of benefit to her, but it doesn't seem like social services are interested in our views at all. All they keep repeating is 'we are acting in her best interest'. Does anyone have any advice, or have a similar situation currently ongoing?
Any help is gratefully received..... Thank you.