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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes
Posted by: Sarah Felstead
Date/Time: 01/03/12 14:58:00

Greetings, Paul

The whole situation of having somebody requiring support after leaving hospital is scary.  The discharge process added to the nightmare with suggestions being made to ‘get rid’ of the patient from a hospital bed which were positively unsafe let alone unkind.
 
Discharge meetings had to be multidisciplinary which in short meant a room full of around 7 other people apart from the patient and their relative, which in this case meant a room full of around 10 people.  This is intimidating simply by nature.

When asked for notes of the meeting there were none which could be made available.  If there were notes they would detail suggestions from the multidisciplinary team that the patient could go home and live downstairs with a bowl and commode and move room to room as the work was progressing – a comment made about this was you can renovate a house room by room, so why can’t he move room to room.

The work involved the ground floor of a 3 bed semi being turned into a building site with dust, debris and open floorboard holes for drains, water and central heating pipes.  Doors off hinges and electrical and plaster work.  The patient could not use the stairs and the front room was to be turned into a bedroom with a wet room in the corner.
  
The patient walked upright with the aid of one of those trollies and had a history of falling and having ambulance crew attend to help him to his feet, and that was on a stable surface.  The carpets from the whole ground floor were up or loosed.

At one stage there was a real fear that the hospital were going to simply drop him off at home and they were told that if they did,  the door would be locked as the house was unsafe.  There was no dispute about the house being unsafe either before adaptions or during adaptions.

The emphasis was on discharging him and ‘fitting him in to the discharge’ and not ‘fitting the environment and help required to keep him safe at home’.

The lady from Hounslow Homes help was called in by either the physios or the PALs team, whose help was sought to help make sense of what the discharge people were proposing.

Tucked away in a leaflet was a snippet about ‘rehab care’ and after asking about this on the patients behalf it was agreed he could go there to regain some strength until the house was sorted out.  Rehab was not offered.

If anyone wanted to get a true idea of how many people are living out of a bucket in their own home I suppose a starting point might be the care agencies that help people wash & dress each day, ask them for details of what facilities are available.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Hounslow Homes21/12/11 13:22:00 Paul Fisher
   Re:Hounslow Homes21/12/11 14:05:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/12/11 20:28:00 Sarah Felstead
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/12/11 20:44:00 Paul Allen
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes24/12/11 08:02:00 Jim Linwood
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes25/12/11 11:22:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/01/12 19:24:00 Jim Linwood
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/01/12 20:33:00 Bernadette Paul
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes03/01/12 10:35:00 maeve beg
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes03/01/12 10:40:00 Keith Iddon
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes03/01/12 16:09:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes08/01/12 17:50:00 Sarah Felstead
   How many of these houses become squats?18/01/12 19:59:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:How many of these houses become squats?18/01/12 22:52:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 09:10:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 10:05:00 Paul Fisher
               Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 14:29:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 15:02:00 Sarah Felstead
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 15:37:00 Vanessa Smith
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 16:32:00 Jim Linwood
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 17:51:00 Phil Andrews
               Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?23/01/12 16:22:00 Sarah Felstead
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?24/01/12 18:57:00 Sarah Felstead
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?02/02/12 12:10:00 Sarah Felstead
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?02/02/12 12:12:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Hounslow Homes22/01/12 14:31:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 11:15:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 19:08:00 Jim Linwood
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 22:32:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Hounslow Homes05/02/12 20:14:00 Jason Sylvester
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes06/02/12 07:43:00 Jim Linwood
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes06/02/12 07:48:00 Paul Fisher
            Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 07:59:00 John Todd
               Re:Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 08:33:00 Paul Fisher
                  Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 10:37:00 John Todd
                     Re:Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 10:57:00 Vanessa Smith
                        Re:Re:Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 12:53:00 Sarah Felstead
                           Re:Re:Re:Long Term Empty properties07/02/12 17:29:00 Sarah Felstead
                              Empty public sheltered accommodation07/02/12 23:24:00 Sarah Felstead
                                 Re:Empty public sheltered accommodation10/02/12 08:05:00 Christopher Boucher
                                    Re:Re:Empty public sheltered accommodation10/02/12 11:39:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Hounslow Homes17/02/12 14:57:00 Sarah Felstead
      Meeting 21st February - tomorrow night - is there an agenda?20/02/12 22:20:00 Sarah Felstead
         Re:Meeting 21st February - tomorrow night - is there an agenda?22/02/12 13:53:00 Sarah Felstead
            Meeting is 23rd February - Thursday night.22/02/12 14:15:00 Sarah Felstead
               Re:Meeting is 23rd February - Thursday night.28/02/12 10:11:00 Sarah Felstead
   Re:Hounslow Homes28/02/12 10:36:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes28/02/12 20:27:00 Paul Allen
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 14:58:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 22:19:00 Paul Allen
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 22:33:00 Sarah Felstead
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes18/03/12 07:36:00 Paul Fisher
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes18/03/12 10:06:00 Phil Andrews
   Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 10:33:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 11:27:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 18:47:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 22:11:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 22:26:00 Sarah Felstead
      Long term empty11/05/12 16:42:00 Sarah Felstead
         Re:Long term empty11/05/12 17:01:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes11/05/12 20:02:00 Jim Linwood
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes26/05/12 23:57:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes27/05/12 18:52:00 Vanessa Smith
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 13:54:00 Sarah Felstead
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 17:14:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 18:49:00 Sarah Felstead

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