Care Home Residents

[jennyjoan]

you know how some of them have Alzheimers etc and so like to wander up and down the corridors, would any of you know what happens at night time when they wander at night.

[Cloverjo]

I think they are gently encouraged to go back to bed.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm sure there are care workers who do night shifts to monitor such activities.

[jennyjoan]

right clover - like I have seen of them during the day and they have been hard to settle so just wondered what did happen, then of course - if they got up again, are they locked in

[ummmm]

No, they aren't locked in.

[Cloverjo]

Jennyjoan, I’ve heard of terrible things. In my previous reply I was referring to my granny’s time in a care home in which there was “a very amorous one-armed man”.

More recently, there was a woman who’d been released from hospital with COVID-19 back into her care home and was locked in her room to die alone.

[jennyjoan]

And - this is beside the question - but a friend of a friend of mine died last year but her husband who she was separated from but "living together" - was seen by the care workers - raping her while she lay sleeping.

[ummmm]

And they didn't report it? Who informed your friend?

[jennyjoan]

yes of course it was reported and there is a court case impending

[anneasquith]

Oh my jj, how awful.

[AuntPollyGrey]

They probably give them all a Mickey Finn in their cocoa JJ.

[woofgang]

There are also medications that can be prescribed to help people who are restless and unhappy with it to sleep through the night.

[AuntPollyGrey]

woofgang -yes they drop them a Mickey Finn lol!

[jennyjoan]

Anne - it was and is terrible. The lady in question had Alzheimers and has since died. The case took up two centre pages of a newspaper and as I said a case is pending. Hope the barsted goes down and the key is thrown away.

[Peter Pedant]

not an awful lot
everything is quiet and the nurses are - - - er - - - quiet
so they wander at will

when I was in isolation - norovirus and immunosuppressed - baby Jane came in and used my lavatory and dumped her ladys nappy in my bin as I woke up she was leaving
just like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre ....during the day she would sleep it off

well you did ask

[Theland]

Perks of the job?
(Wonder why they picked YOUR room? Hmmmm!)