Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

silvercar

Surely the carers should be able to operate the pill dispensing machine?

Isn't it better that old has meds at 12 consistently every day rather than twice some mornings and not others?

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Surely the carers should be able to operate the pill dispensing machine?

You'd like to think so wouldn't you ... but I turned up the other day and found the door on the latch as the carer hadn't been able to get the key out of the keysafe so had left the door on the latch in case the next one couldn't. I mentioned this to their manager, who thought it might be an unusual one, so checked the keysafe and said it's a type they are used to. Or there was the one the other day who we had the discussion with about dehydration, they said the notes said to make sure fluids are topped up .... then promptly left having offered/given the old zero to drink.

And those are just two incidents I've spotted from five days when I wasn't really around much. God knows what they're up to when I've not got a detailed eye on things.

We've got a cleaner that can't work out what time she has to go home as she starts at 1.30 and does 1.5 hours.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

We've got a cleaner that can't work out what time she has to go home as she starts at 1.30 and does 1.5 hours.

It's 4pm isn't it...?

Mike Tyson learned numeracy in prison. He said that he realised that there were a lot of waiters that owed him dinner once he knew what 10% meant!

michaels

Only slightly amusing, my DW is doing a short course on how to teach maths to your kids (subtracting by counting on, that sort of thing) and there was a question about cooking a turkey of the form 'The turkey must be cooked for 20 mins per kilo plus 30 mins, how long must you could a 4kg bird for'....but of course this question was obviously just lifted without thought from the imperial 20mins per pound question of years before with no thought as to whether the cooking time needed to change for the change in units. We are havign xmas dinner at my sister's this year, I hope the turkey is cooked for longer than 10 mins per pound...

elantan

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's the "sole task" of one of the carer's,.

that is actually alot of responsibility for a person earning very little to have ( giving out the meds that is )... have they been properly trained in administering medication? by law the person recieving the meds can also refuse to take them

its a tough situation and you have my sympathy

elantan

PasturesNew wrote: »

You'd like to think so wouldn't you ... but I turned up the other day and found the door on the latch as the carer hadn't been able to get the key out of the keysafe so had left the door on the latch in case the next one couldn't. I mentioned this to their manager, who thought it might be an unusual one, so checked the keysafe and said it's a type they are used to. Or there was the one the other day who we had the discussion with about dehydration, they said the notes said to make sure fluids are topped up .... then promptly left having offered/given the old zero to drink.

And those are just two incidents I've spotted from five days when I wasn't really around much. God knows what they're up to when I've not got a detailed eye on things.

We've got a cleaner that can't work out what time she has to go home as she starts at 1.30 and does 1.5 hours.

i will agree alot of carers are worse than useless ... some of the ones i have worked with i despair on how on earth they ever took the job on ... what i will also tell you though is that ... a person may have to be at say your old's house for 9am ... spend an hour ( half an hour in some cases ... whatever the care package provides) then be at another persons house for 10 am ( or 9.30 if its half an hour) this other persons house can be 5 /6 or even many more miles away ... they may land up going 10 hours without a break ( and yes i know that is illegal) in that time have to shower etc 6 or so people ... it can be a tough job and i wouldnt want to do it ... but i know of several that do ( and not all of them good either) ... but if you pay peanuts you do get monkeys

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

... there was a question about cooking a turkey of the form 'The turkey must be cooked for 20 mins per kilo plus 30 mins, how long must you could a 4kg bird for'....but of course this question was obviously just lifted without thought from the imperial 20mins per pound question of years before with no thought as to whether the cooking time needed to change for the change in units. We are havign xmas dinner at my sister's this year, I hope the turkey is cooked for longer than 10 mins per pound...

Yikes - I hope she gave the answer, "a lot longer than that...."!

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Why do people switch current accounts?

I've had the same account for over 30 years, only moving now to avoid being transferred to Santander.

ISTR hearing that people are more likely on average to divorce than move banks.

My parents are doing their bit to change the stats - they've never divorced, and have shifted banks twice, from Barclays to Lloyds in the mid-80s, and from Lloyds to HSBC a couple of years ago.

They "moved their overdraft" as my Dad put it from Barclays because Lloyds was offering a much easier combination of mortgage / bank account.

They moved from Lloyds a couple of years ago because they kept getting young spotty "account managers" ringing up my Dad and hassling him to buy insurance for this and credit services for that. Every time he went to pay a cheque in, they'd try to flog him something. It got on his nerves.

lostinrates

I wouldn't mind half an hour of help even from a monkey this morning. I'm stugling to load the stupid woodburner and need to get more wood in. I'm hoping I can eek out what I have for most o the day and then will get a small wheelbarrow full later. I'm so sore and took ages to get dressed, and want today to go quikly so I can get undressed because my clothes feel designed to trip me up and constrain. I want to go back to sleep!!

silvercar

elantan wrote: »

that is actually alot of responsibility for a person earning very little to have ( giving out the meds that is )... have they been properly trained in administering medication? by law the person recieving the meds can also refuse to take them

its a tough situation and you have my sympathy

Given that the carers have to either drive or be able to use public transport, I would have thought shaking some tablets out of a dispenser marked with the correct day would not be too difficult.