My 90 yr old Father has a long list of health issues. He has a visual impairment, extremely deaf, COPD, a small lung module deemed to be cancerous, heart valve disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, prostate cancer, a permanently fitted catheter, kidney failure, arthritis in his feet and hands and can’t use stairs any more or walk more than 10 steps without having to stop while he catches his breath. He has regular falls and infections mostly resulting in hospital admission. He lives alone in his ground floor flat with Carers going in 3 times a day.
Recently he had a fall and was found by a carer. He then was found in a very poorly state in his living room one morning and he was admitted into hospital with a very serious cardiac situation. He then had another fall which resulted in a small bleed on his brain and a haematoma on his brain which caused twitching on the opposite side arm and hands. He has become incredibly weak & frail and has said he no longer wants to live like he is and wants to live in a care home. Besides the care aspect he says he needs some company & the reassurance of Carers around for 24 hrs.
The hospital nurses, doctors & Consultant all agree that he needs residential care. Unfortunately his assessment for CHC didn’t bring up a bigger score for him to have a full assessment so it was passed to social services to consider their input to care. They have suggested that he returns to his flat with 4 Carers a day but this does not address the dangerous problem of him falling again when there is no one around especially at night. He can’t press an alarm pendant as he has pour dexterity in his fingers due to arthritis and numbness due to poor circulation. He has previously fallen and not been able to move to pull the emergency pull cord to get help.
Despite him not scoring highly on the CHC checklist the Consultant has refused to discharge him from hospital as she feels he is going into a very vulnerable and unsafe situation. Social Services are not improving the care package to residential care. My Dad would be paid for by social services. So we have the situation where my Dad is technically ready to leave hospital but not to his unsafe situation and social services are refusing to fund him a place in a care home. What do we do next? I’m impressed that the hospital are so caring and concerned for his situation but frustrated by S Servises to take my Dad’s unsafe situation seriously. Help & advice please!
Recently he had a fall and was found by a carer. He then was found in a very poorly state in his living room one morning and he was admitted into hospital with a very serious cardiac situation. He then had another fall which resulted in a small bleed on his brain and a haematoma on his brain which caused twitching on the opposite side arm and hands. He has become incredibly weak & frail and has said he no longer wants to live like he is and wants to live in a care home. Besides the care aspect he says he needs some company & the reassurance of Carers around for 24 hrs.
The hospital nurses, doctors & Consultant all agree that he needs residential care. Unfortunately his assessment for CHC didn’t bring up a bigger score for him to have a full assessment so it was passed to social services to consider their input to care. They have suggested that he returns to his flat with 4 Carers a day but this does not address the dangerous problem of him falling again when there is no one around especially at night. He can’t press an alarm pendant as he has pour dexterity in his fingers due to arthritis and numbness due to poor circulation. He has previously fallen and not been able to move to pull the emergency pull cord to get help.
Despite him not scoring highly on the CHC checklist the Consultant has refused to discharge him from hospital as she feels he is going into a very vulnerable and unsafe situation. Social Services are not improving the care package to residential care. My Dad would be paid for by social services. So we have the situation where my Dad is technically ready to leave hospital but not to his unsafe situation and social services are refusing to fund him a place in a care home. What do we do next? I’m impressed that the hospital are so caring and concerned for his situation but frustrated by S Servises to take my Dad’s unsafe situation seriously. Help & advice please!