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Next step, Grandmother getting violent

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SospanFrangipan · 31/08/2019 17:03

Hi All

My Grandma has just (on Thursday) been moved into a Dementia specific nursing home. It's a lovely place, and it's state of the art having only been open 3 years.
So she has been there all of two days, and they have already given us 4 weeks notice to move her. She has been violent towards another resident, who keeps walking into GMs room, moving her things around, and getting in her face.
I'm at my whits end with it all. It's taken 9 weeks to get her this place, and move her. The previous home were not geared up for EMI, and was an awful place to the point I have made a massive complaint against them, but that's another thread entirely.
Anybody have any experience with anything like this? What happens next if a dementia setting can't manage her? We can't keep moving her every four weeks when homes decide that they don't want her anymore. Her social worker is absolutely useless, didn't help us one bit with organising her move, just left us to it and then complained when it took us nine weeks to sort it.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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HappyHammy · 04/09/2019 14:04

The home have a duty of care to her and all the residents, IF you want her to stay there then you arrange a meeting with the manager, gp and adult social services safeguarding lead and ask why another resident is allowed to wander into her room. Is it a specialist dementia nursing home is she privately funded or council. Just because somewhere looks nice it doesnt mean the care is good unfortunately. Do you have power of attorney to keep moving her. You can speak to social services and request another social worker, you can ring the cqc for advise.,

Supersimkin · 09/09/2019 12:17

Call her GP - her meds may need tweaking. Get another social worker, and get them to find her a place. Be firm! The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Good luck.

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