Hi,
I have posted about my Mum before and it has become clear after 4 admissions to hospital this year, that she cannot cope at home.
She is suffering severe depression and anxiety, and I am really concerned that no treatments tried have been effective.
She was moved from a hospital setting, to a care home hub bed nearly two weeks ago. This happened after in patient psychiatric treatment was suggested, but somehow her team decided that community mental health team support in the hub setting would have a similar outcome. In reality this has meant only one visit from a mental health nurse.
The mental health nurse got my Mum out of her room and outside for about 20 minutes.
Other than this, she has sat in her room ruminating and obsessively writing down her worries hundreds of times. There are pages and pages of identical notes. Nobody has challenged this behaviour or really made an effort to engage Mum in other activities, as they say she has capacity and can make her own decisions.
The hub team are keen to discharge Mum. I think this is ridiculous as she is obviously not well.
Where do I stand on requesting that she be given in-patient psychiatric care, which is what we as a family wanted her to try, the two times it was offered before.
I don’t see how the NHS can want to give on her, when not everything has been tried.
The hub team social worker was very honest and said her role is to get people to another setting or placement as quickly as possible. I don’t think this is right for Mum. I understand the pressures, but think the in-patient treatment should be tried before people give up on treatment for her.
Does anyone have experience of navigating this process?
We do eventually want to pursue getting her a care home placement in a specific location, but social services don’t seem keen to help with that.