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  • On Inspection

    The Commission for Social Care Inspection have a system of rating residential and nursing homes. I have written about it before. I possibly didn’t state obliquely how cynical I have become of this system even though the cynicism was always there implicitly. Last week, however, I had a more personal...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2008

  • Jailbreak

    To all you people who work in nursing homes: I hate to tell you how to do your job because I'm sure you're great at it. It's a job I'm not sure I could do, and I know it's a job that I certainly don't want. Not at this juncture anyway. So, thank you for your contribution to society...
    Posted to Trench Warfare (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008

  • Revisiting

    I have been in my current team for a couple of years. I worked in the same local authority before that though for about three years. The geographical boundaries of the areas that I work in don’t strictly overlap so I haven’t had it happen very often that I see people that I used to [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • A duty to die

    Sarah Wootton wrote a piece in the Guardian, a few days ago, considering Baroness Warnock’s comments in the Church of Scotland’s magazine, Life and Work, in which she stated that dementia suffers may have ‘a duty to die’. Uproar followed as it is a headline which is easy to write...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008

  • Problem solving

    So what do you do when you're a man getting along in years (read: 89) and have just moved from living by yourself in a tiny town to living with family in a big city? You lived in this tiny town literally your entire life. You can no longer drive because there was a minor incident at a railroad crossing...
    Posted to Trench Warfare (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-23-2008

  • Lest We Forget

    Yesterday was World Alzheimer’s Day. Events around the world were held to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease and it’s impact. Some countries are holding study days, others picnics and walks. Different ways of drawing attention to the disease and pushing it into the public consciousness...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008

  • The Horse Man

    It used to be quite straightforward. I was in an assessment team so someone would make a referral to our services - usually the person themselves, or a family member or a GP or district nurse - someone who had reason to understand that care was needed for some reason. Sometimes the referrals came from...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Is Caring a Skill?

    The immigration rules are changing here. Generally I have a liberal view towards immigration - and one that probably wouldn’t win me any friends at dinner parties, if I ever went to any that is! I am aware though, that my view is sometimes prejudiced by the knowledge that my own great-grandparents...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008

  • Eat or Heat?

    Yesterday, the Royal British Legion and Age Concern launched the Return to Rationing Campaign. It is aimed to highlight poverty among older people and the name of the campaign itself, evokes a Britain during World War 2 and its immediate aftermath that lingers in the consciousness of the nation. Stark...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • Looking ahead

      Yesterday I visited Mrs B and her husband. He has Alzheimer’s Disease and it is at a fairly advanced stage. She has been caring for her husband for many years watching  his deterioration staying constantly at his side. I have been involved for only a few months but over that time, have...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008
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