I had to take Tuesday afternoon as annual leave to attend a Nursing Care Review at the home where dad is now resident to ascertain with the local Social Services Care Manager, the local Primary Care Trust (PCT) Nursing Care Assessor and a Senior Nurse at the home, myself and mother. Starting at 14:30 we the review covered every aspect of the care provision for Dad as well as an assessment as to how he had settled in, his general health and demeanour. At the end I was able to raise some concerns mother and I had from the first 5 - 6 weeks of his residence.
The net outcome of this meeting is that Dad has been assessed as receiving the level of care appropriate to his needs and apart from a couple of incidents, that we are happy that his needs are being met. Because he chooses to spend most of his time in his own company we will look to provide more entertainment for him in the form of a DAB radio so that he can listen to classical music and talking/audio books so that he can listen to stories.
Yesterday (Wednesday) a phone line was installed so that he can now make and receive calls to keep in touch with family. Because of the BT charge plan he is on he will only be able to make landline calls as calls to mobiles are charged at a rediculous rate. The up side is that it includes a BT Home Hub so that visitors with laptops or mobile computing devices can connect to the internet if there is content they want to show him. I'll be upgrading my laptop to one with a built in camera so that hopefully we can get him into live video chat with family in America (I know Chris will love to see Dad in real-time).
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