Who can I get to carry my mum downstairs?

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Mum has Alzheimer's and since falling and breaking her wrist 4 months ago has refused to use the stairs at home so she has been living upstairs. Dad lives with her and is her full time carer, with help from a care agency who come in 4 times a day.

Dad's decided - rightly I think - that they would be better living downstairs where there's a bathroom and a room they could put beds in. Social services might be able to organise mum being carried down the stairs, but it's not a certainty and could take weeks if not months to arrange. Does anybody know whether there's any other way to get mum downstairs, please?

We've already tried St John's Ambulance, Red Cross and the GP surgery. It's logistically complicated because it needs to happen on the same day that her hospital bed is moved downstairs by the company that delivered it, so moving mum needs to be something we can arrange for a specific day. If anybody has experience of this I'd be very grateful to hear from you, thanks!

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This is a great idea !

People with Alzheimer's can very easily be scared for no rational reason - so reasoning won’t help. My DM was often scared of things that were entirely in her own head.

I think cutting family out is the best idea. My mother doesn't make a peep when the ambulance service carry her out. Whereas if I suggested calling the ambulance she'd go nuts on me. When they arrive she's as nice as pie

@NotTooOldPaul I agree re moving the bed - sadly my father does not 🙄
@PeachPairPlum Yes, we've impressed upon social services that it's an urgent safety issue, and asked the dementia nurse, GP surgery and private care agency to do the same. It's just taking time.

Dad is now getting cold feet about the whole plan to move downstairs and is insisting that we wait to see if social services will do it before he decides if he wants to. But thanks for your help on this thread - at least if social services won't, I now know where we can go for other help.

Yes, I was going to suggest cave rescue.

But not till you’ve exhausted the private ambulance options