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Age 56-65
Interview 47  

Interview 47

Age at Interview: 59
Sex: Female
Background: Is a married mother of two children and is carer. Ethnic background/nationality: Scottish.
Brief outline:Carer for mother who had a stroke at the age of 83. Her mother now suffers from vascular dementia and some visual loss. She is registered partially blind. Medication: bendrofluazide, perindopril, (blood pressure) omeprazole, (gastric resistant tablets) citalopram, (antidepressant); senna and/or movicol, (laxative) calichew (calcium/vit D3 supplement) alendronic acid, (bisphosphonate ), detrusitol, (urinary continence).

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Her mother has vascular dementia following her stroke and they have a tuck in service to try and make sure she goes to bed.

 



We have a book that I've asked the carers, everyone to write things in the book. I write things as well, when she's got appointments and what have you. And the carers just let me know that [coughs], excuse me, they're just letting me know, she had a good breakfast. She's got a carer who comes morning and lunch time, it's a different one at tea time, we now have the tuck in service for her for in the evening although nine times out of ten she doesn't let them change her into her nightwear. We're still happy that she's got this tuck in service because we hope it encourages her to get, she knows what time of the day it is then and they can, they don't actually put her to bed because she, oh totally, mind you they were coming quite early and it was a shame to put her to bed too early. But a lot of the time she's actually, she's not going to bed she's sitting up in an armchair in the living room. And that's quite upsetting, but my brothers, most people have told me, don't start going along at night to make sure she is in bed because I'd have to do it all the time. And that's what the tuck in service is for. And it's very hard to rely on the carers and the tuck in service when you've been used to doing it but I am learning and I'm trying not to go every day because it is expected and the trouble is when I'm not here, when I'm away on holiday or whatever, sometimes it's harder for the rest of the family to do what I do, and she is looked after between the carers three times a day and the tuck in service at night. So we've got to try and step back and let this happen.
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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