Hello all. I've name changed for this but have been around MN for well over a decade.
My elderly (95) relative has been in hospital since Easter in two separate admissions. The one attempt to discharge her home saw her back at A&E within hours. The admissions have been due to falls and trauma, but there are many other co-morbidities. It has now been decided that she cannot return home and must go to 24 hour care.
The hospital discharge team say that she needs to be in a residential bed as her needs can be met without nursing, but then go on to say that it should be a dual registered home with nursing available as well. There are six such homes in my local authority and only three of them have beds. All three of them have declined to take her, saying they can't meet her needs. One says she's clearly demented (true - it's blindingly obvious but not formally diagnosed because the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team have flatly rejected seven referrals in the last 18 months) and needs a dementia bed. One says her needs are for nursing, which the NHS denies even though they've told me to find a home with nursing available. The third says they can't provide 1-1 care. The hospital says she doesn't need 1-1 even though they've had that on the ward for the last ten weeks!
Anyone have any advice?