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Residential care :
Arranging residential care
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Carers of people with dementia

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She managed for a time to care for her mother in her own home which was nearby but eventually had to agree to her going into a nursing home.

Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 38 >> His partner's home care workers did their best but were poorly paid and untrained. He cannot understand why the service was privatised.

Cared for at home with help of friends, relatives and neighbours while carer worked part time. Treated with Aricept and Rivastigmine. Admitted for respite care in 2000 and never returned home after that.

Nerves & brain >> Carers of people with dementia >> Men caring for partners >> Interview 08 >> Carers who came to look after his wife did very little for her.

He felt he had to fight to get the care she needed when she needed it. Indignant that medication was refused on grounds of cost but did persuade GP to give Aricept though he admits it didn't do her any good. Life is very lonely since she died.

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