Chapter 18
Helping the Care Home
In This Chapter
Introducing someone to care home staff
Looking at the benefits of visiting regularly
Getting involved in aspects of care
Knowing what to do if things go wrong
When you’ve decided on the best care home to look after your loved one, it’s time to help settle her in. The more information you can give the new carers, the better able they are to make the person with dementia feel at home as quickly as possible. The person will no doubt feel unsettled by having to move out of either her own home, which she may have shared with a spouse, or your home if she’s been with you temporarily. Either way, her surroundings would have been familiar, along with the faces of those looking after her, even if she didn’t always remember who they were. Now she’s in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by strangers.
And even more disconcerting, other people are sharing the place with her: new people to get to know and with whom to share the TV, dining table and toilet facilities. In a care home, people are no longer able to completely please themselves, and even ...
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