Visiting home

[Smokey12]

My husband is in a care home but wants to visit his home for an afternoon then go back would this be okay?

 

[nae sporran]

It's not something I have had to ask for, but https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...icies-for-visiting-arrangements-in-care-homes has the latest government guidance.
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[Pork Pie lady]

Talk to the home about it. It would be nice to think you can facilitate this but please make sure you and any one supporting you in this are 100% sure you can manage his needs during this time. One of the things I would ask myself is whether it would unsettle him too much and is there a possibility that at the end of the visit he will not cooperate withgoing back.

 

[canary]

One of the things I would ask myself is whether it would unsettle him too much and is there a possibility that at the end of the visit he will not cooperate withgoing back.

Yes, I have heard of this happening.
With mum, though, I had the opposite - she no longer recognised her home of 30 years as her home and she became really distressed worrying that the owners would come back and find us and we would be in trouble, I had to take her straight back to her care home.
I worked out afterwards that when was talking about "going home" she meant her childhood home.

 

[Smokey12]

Talk to the home about it. It would be nice to think you can facilitate this but please make sure you and any one supporting you in this are 100% sure you can manage his needs during this time. One of the things I would ask myself is whether it would unsettle him too much and is there a possibility that at the end of the visit he will not cooperate withgoing back.

Thank you I know what you mean he might want to come everyday that’s the problem but it would be great if I could do it say twice a week

 

[Smokey12]

Yes, I have heard of this happening.
With mum, though, I had the opposite - she no longer recognised her home of 30 years as her home and she became really distressed worrying that the owners would come back and find us and we would be in trouble, I had to take her straight back to her care home.
I worked out afterwards that when was talking about "going home" she meant her childhood home.

It would be so much easier if he didn’t recognise it but most definitely knows his home