An elderly lady moved into our street about a year ago, I’d never really seen her or knew her name until April. We were away on holiday and she rang our doorbell at 6am asking for help putting up a curtain track and some other rambling (spoke to her on ring) this happened again a few weeks later - 6am wake up call asking if we knew anything about TV’s. From asking about the village Facebook I managed to get her name and that she had some learning difficulties- but she lives completely on her own and I’m not sure that’s the best for her. I rang round adult social services, 101, and it was like banging my head against the wall.
6.15am today our door goes. Luckily my husband was home and she asked him to look at her door as it wouldn’t open? He goes in, she goes upstairs and locks herself in the bathroom. She says it’s locked and she can’t open it so she’ll have to go out the window. She then proceeds to throw herself out of her FIRST floor window. DH didn’t realise until he had kicked the bathroom door down. It’s high, it wasn’t ground floor.
he came home looking like he had seen a ghost. She only seemed to have minor injuries so we rang 101 - no answer. Social literally yawned while talking to us. So we rang 999 and got her an ambulance as I said she might have internal injuries and she needed checking over. They said she seems ok and left after checks. She then had someone come to take her to a MH appointment so we told them what happened and he said he would tell them, but I don’t know whether to ring the clinic myself.
any advice? She’s in her 70s and she shouldn’t live alone, I worry she’s going to end up killing herself by accident before long.