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please help me to help my parents in Nottingham

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yogabird · 25/02/2012 11:07

I need to find a lovely country care home near Nottingham which can offer respite care for my Dad who has vascular dementia. He is young - 69 and relatively fit and healthy. He wants to be able to walk in a garden and look at the birds and I want people to be kind and supportive of him and his worries. Preferably I want him to be with youngish people but know that this is unlikely to be possible. He is lucid for lots of the time but obsessive at times and very anxious.

My Mum is ill and struggling to cope and look after him as well - she will recover - she has TB and has had a bad reaction to the TB drugs and so is too ill to cope at the moment. Dad has been in a care home in town just to give her a break to recover and he hates it. I need to try to find somewhere else more suitable for when she needs another break. I am far away and it's just so hard.

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yogabird · 26/02/2012 19:31

Bump-anyone please?

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debtherat · 26/02/2012 20:07

My mum and dad have moved to an excellent scheme - extra care on the edge of Nottingham - Larkhill Village - google it. It is houses,flats and a care home - some privtely owned, some social housing. Not sure if they do just respite.

yogabird · 27/02/2012 17:53

Someone must know whether such a place exists...?

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virgil · 27/02/2012 17:55

DH has a lot of contacts in the industry and we are Nottingham based. I will ask him for you when he gets home.

Gumby · 27/02/2012 17:57

Did you investigate debtherat's suggestion op?

MsGee · 27/02/2012 18:04

Contact elderly accommodation counsel, their first stop service will advise.

yogabird · 29/02/2012 20:08

thanks all. Going to google now, hadn't seen that post re: Larkhill must have slid along my phone or something - it's new and not yet really on top of how it works so have switched to the iMac!

virgil, thanks because it's local knowledge that's so useful here. I am up in Notts now and have just collected him and brought him home . Mum still ill but going to try to cope with him. He's just so anxious about everything and has already quizzed and quizzed about all sorts of things that he perceives to be at huge risk of going wrong and was agitated about leaving the care home without the coat hangers he thought had been stolen there. It's hard work at least the football's on now so he's more at ease.

Now googled. Larkhill looks lovely but i think it's a longer term solution - will bear in mind though

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40notTrendy · 29/02/2012 20:13

There is a respite care home in, or near Edwinstowe. I'm not sure if it would cater for your dad's needs but a friend of the family books in from time to time. Unfortunately I don't know what it's called but I'm sure google would help. Smile Hope you find something.

yogabird · 04/03/2012 20:15

Anyone else? Please?

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