I'm nearly done (and done in for that matter) getting my aged mother into a Care Home.
I moved her from the temporary home where she's been for the past 5 weeks into a home that is funded by the County Council.
Friday is the big day when her home for the past 24 years will be cleared, the meters read, the phone disconnected and everything else.
Then next Thursday it is her 96th Birthday.
For anyone who will be faced with this task please, please, please do your best to get a 'Power of Attourney' in place before you do this. IT makes the whole thing so much easier. Sady Mum wouldn't hear of it. Sigh.
Some organisations won't even speak to you unless you have it in place. One even refused to tell me the process until I complained.
even bigger sigh.
Nearly there.
Samantha
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Sad task.
It is a sad task what you describe, Samantha. Not in the least because no pension system in existence ever planned for an upside down age pyramid or the exploding cost of care for the elderly.
As caring traditionally is one of the worst paid jobs and care homes are traditionally under staffed, officials are more often than not arrogant and too full of themselves and care has generally become a cut throat business I do not envy your task.
I hope you'll have managed soon to everybody's satisfaction.
All the best,
Monique.
Monique S
Been there, done that: I feel for you and your mom
It can become a terribly stressful situation for the whole family.
Thanks
The stress is the worst. It has brough on my right sided tinitus again. A real PITA. I can only hope that it goes away again. At least my B.P. is relatively normal (small mercies).
The downside is that Mum is now 50 miles away rather than 35. At least she has 24/7 care which is what she has to have given her frailty.
Samantha