Its just awful that they are messing you around like this, as if its not hard enough for you already.

I'd definitely be checking with an aged care facility, tell them you urgently need respite, he's in hospital and you are having trouble getting help and an assessment, I'm sure they'd be able to give you some good advice.

Gil maybe you need to get in touch with your doctor and get him to pull some weight in the situation you are in call in all the favours each and everyone of them......Qld health is totally the pits really feel sorry for you:(

why do all these sorts of things happen on a weekend?   Now I have to wait till Monday to ring anyone.

why do all these sorts of things happen on a weekend?   Now I have to wait till Monday to ring anyone......

dam and blast these "post flooding" thingos!!

Do you think, generally speaking, that hospitals or  health services are more likely to send an ill person - physical and/or alzheimers  related - back to their own home In the short term at least) if they live with another person... that is.. the ill person has someone else to care for them at home?

Where as for a person who is single and lives alone they make more effort to find them an alternative, can't send them home if they can't look after themselves?

I know when my elderly father was ill (physically) the hospital weren't concerned about sending him home for his wife (Mum, 80+ years old) to care for him (as it turned out it was only home for a week then he went back in to hosp and died there).

Whereas when my Mum living alone, (early stages on Alzheimers) had a fall in her own home and  her Dr  got her 2 weeks respite care in a retirment home from the day she fell.. an assessment was done in those 2 weeks,  to see if she was capable of  returning to her own home.. which she wasn't and got permanent room there.

Gill try to stay positive and focused very hard i know and lets hope Monday brings some answers the last mile is always the hardest:)

thanks everyone for your support.   the courtesy bus is about to pick me up and later bring me home..I'm going to a 50th bday party...will be an early evening.   bit of relaxation.

thanks

Dr. rang today and they want to know can he go into rehab if he's "suitable"....I don't know how they think they can reverse dementia...however..apparrently it's mandatory that rehab be discarded, before ACAT will assess him???? wheels within wheels.It's all very confusing, but Ithink we might be getting somewhere at last.

How is your OH doing Gill and any news about his future?

any changes Gill? how are you both doing now?