A lot to think about : Wandering through a Care Home

You can watch the television all day if you want to. You can listen to the radio. if you can't walk by yourself then you're very restricted because there are staff to take you into the garden or to do something with you and what most people seem to miss the most is conversatio, having a chat with somebody talking to somebody but it's got to be either someone they know and trust and love or someone very imaginative. good even if it's a poor quality of life it takes a lot of courage to get out if that is feasible for on the other hand there was a woman there when I was there and she was only there because she broken her more leg so obviously it was time limited but she was frightened of going home and at the same time she was angry about the large bill she was paying I think it's being alone at night that frightens people but it's so much nicer to sleep in your own bed and in my case I got a new bed. and I got a wool duve and new pillows. if you don't feel co...

You can go home from a nursing home even if you've been there for more than a year. Why would you want to go home? Being helpless is conducive to bring along depression. and although there may be a choice of food this is not very wide. we were given pork several times a week probably because it's the cheapest meat that you can buy but if you're not very keen on pork it's trying. I lost several kilos while I was in the nursing home because if I couldn't eat what was offered there was nothing else sometimes there wasn't even so when you go home you can choose your own food etc however you will have become institutionalized that means that you are used to letting other people tell you what to do including washing you and dressing you and probably choosing your clothes for you and you don't deal with your own doctor yourself they ring the doctor if they're thinking it's necessary which is fine when you've got dementia m but if you don't have de...

Reflecting on my experience living in this nursing home one thing is playing. ahat they don't expect anyone to get better. I was told I was going there to learn to walk but the staff in the care home had no interest whatsoever in whether I walked or not and in fact said to me that he was too much of an effort for me to struggle to learn to walk why didn't add his lie back in the bed and stay there forever. unknown to myself I did have a lot of severe back pain caused by a fractured disk which is still giving me trouble and if you want to know what it's like you can read some books by the writer Nicholas freeling about inspector castang the French defective and is Czech and if you want to know what it's like you can read some books by the writer Nicholas freeling about inspector castang the French defective and is Czech wife Vera a former gymnast. when I am older a time might come when I was an injury or an illness which will not get better and then I will have to give u...

I was not totally happy when I was in the geriatric ward in a large hospital in London but I was not afraid like I was in the nursing home because if something was wrong I could complain and I have complained since I left the hospital but overall my experience of the North Middlesex hospital is extremely positive as long as you can talk to somebody and find out what to do. the patient liaison service works very quickly and within a day you could be and within a day you could be speaking a motion or even to a doctor in the nursing home if you questioned your medication you got into terrible trouble. pretend that they were ignoring you but in the background they were trying to do with the problem secretly and I felt terrible for 48 hours after I was given the wrong medication when I was told it wasn't wrong it was because my eyesight was poor that I thought it was wrong.It is is a serious error not to accept criticism openly. accepting it will help both a person making the criticism ...

I was in hospital for 2 weeks and in some ways it was similar. fewer nurses more carers in the home we were washed ourselves very well every morning in the hospital it was less than once every two days. look at least in the hospital there are witnesses to what happens namely the other patients and the other staff. And there is PALS that is very good indeed as long as you speak out properly.

it's hard being bedbound.Then when you get out its frightening being out. The safety of a prison can tempt us and make it even harder to learn to walk again. when the second rail was taken off my bed I felt anxious

We may think that my expectations are too high for our society. if I would say they are ideals. they are something we can aspire to. the gap between what we do and what we would like to do can be painful. but it's good if one can maintain the tension: can keep both ends connected

you may think that I am giving nusr pHing homes a hard time by criticizing what I experienced and what I saw but I would go even further and say that many of the things that happened there which are unkind cruel or wrong happen in the wilder society as well 40% of dementia is preventable with who is more likely to get it? it's the poor of course some people may be able to make wonderful meals very cheaply but enough everybody can do that and if you are short of money and anxious about the cost of living it doesn't make it easy to race away from sheets ready-made food

I love to go awandering around a Nursing Home and as I go I love to sing to drown out people's growns I love to take my sleeping pills, 3 hours before the time is giving patients sedatives a sin or just a crime? I love to see Dementia, she likes to scream and yell. she. longs to go as in the air, she's either ill or well. It's lonely in a nursing home. there's nothing much to do. I think we'll go through the snow, to catch a dose of flu. I love to go a wandering, around a little town now it's just these corridors, it sometimes it gets me down

When I was bed bound and I had a catheter in my bladder I felt a lot of pain in my bladder and it was not being empty by the catheter it felt very uncomfortable. someone used become to my room in the middle of the night to empty the bag because it was not big enough to last for the whole night and when they came I sometimes said I am in pain are you sure that it's connected properly, I have just spent nearly a month a big hospital and I was afraid of that. I don't know whether it was deliberate but they said to me some night night if you keep complaining we will send you back to the hospital. I was so lonely and so afraid I believed them I thought I was in pain and I would have to go to A and E. so I thought I'd better not go to sleep. after few nights like this I was not able to sleep and I went from being able to sleep fo 18 months. Until I came home. other times they were refused to change the disposable pads that the bedbound people had to wear and I was so for them if ...