Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.

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Mandymoo
Mandymoo
Jun 2021
4:28pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Mandymoo


Set up at Devizes until Mondsy. We have gone for less this time and taken the small awning 😁
Little Miss Happy
Little Miss Happy
Jun 2021
6:16pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Little Miss Happy
Wrong thread Mandy?
Serendippily
Serendippily
Jun 2021
8:26pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Serendippily
It’s elderly not senior here :-)
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Jun 2021
8:28pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Lip Gloss
😅
leaguefreak
leaguefreak
Jun 2021
9:26pm, 11 Jun 2021
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leaguefreak
Mum is home. I have given feedback on poor experience to the care quality commission about her care.

When I've got more energy I will blog about it.

I am mulling helping her to do a subject access request for her care records and then handing them their arses on a plate.

The GP practice and reception team have been wonderfully supportive though despite the bad press they often get. They have done things in hours that usually take days,

I miss my kids though
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Jun 2021
9:29pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Lip Gloss
Aw LF it all sounds stressful.
leaguefreak
leaguefreak
Jun 2021
9:37pm, 11 Jun 2021
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leaguefreak
It's not great.
My coping is a bit wobbly.
Mandymoo
Mandymoo
Jun 2021
9:43pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Mandymoo
Yep - sorry!!!
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
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9:44pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Lip Gloss
Oh I bet. Thank you for your recognition of the work the GP & reception staff are doing….it doesn’t happen often.
leaguefreak
leaguefreak
Jun 2021
9:52pm, 11 Jun 2021
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Mandy it gave me a good giggle on a shit day.

And no thanks needed. Always happy to be honest. The receptionist fielded 4 phone calls from me today without a hint of annoyance, let me drop something in and copied it there and then so I could retain my copy and had a meds change turned round by the prescription clerk and pharmacist in less than an hour when the target time was 2 days. I cannot praise them enough. They recognised my predicament and did everything in their power to help. They also rustled up a scrip for a week's supply of drugs the hospital had failed to give me in the space of 30 minutes saving me a 40 mile round trip. All the while acting like they had all the time in the world for me and weren't as pressured as they actually were (perpetual queue of impatient poorly people all day).

About This Thread

Maintained by LindsD
I thought I'd start a thread, as lots of us have elderly folks that we worry about/care for.

Useful info for after someone dies here (with thanks to grast_girl)
moneysavingexpert.com

Other useful links

myageingparent.com

moneysavingexpert.com

Who pays for residential care? Information here:

ageuk.org.uk

Advice on care homes and payment/funding

theguardian.com

Also: After someone dies, if their home insurance was only in their name, sadly the cover becomes void. But if the policy was in joint names, it will still cover the surviving policyholder (though the names on the policy will need to be updated).

A useful book of exercises for memory loss and dementia
amazon.co.uk

Pension Credit. The rules are a bit complex but if your elderly relative has some sort of disability (in this case dementia/Alzheimer's) and go into a home, they may be able to claim pension credit. So if carers allowance stops, it seems pension credit can start. It can also be backdated.

Fall alarm company, etc.

careium.co.uk

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