Relative refusing professional care...?

margaretclare

I'm glad this situation is being resolved, even if it had to reach crisis point before help could be obtained. Best wishes to all the family. There are some things that flesh and blood should not be expected to deal with, especially over a long time.

Mindless_Clone

Thanks for the update OP. I am glad to hear that things have come to some kind of resolution. He may not like it but hopefully he will come round and things will be easier going forward.

bestpud

Mindless_Clone wrote: »

Thanks for the update OP. I am glad to hear that things have come to some kind of resolution. He may not like it but hopefully he will come round and things will be easier going forward.

Hope so! Hopefully he will feel a million times better if they can get the pain under control.

jackyann

thanks for the update - best wishes to all the family

Anastasia

This is reminding of the experience with my father who had a brain tumour and died earlier this year in his eighties. Macmillan care and day hospice care was on offer but my mother discouraged them calling. She felt she could cope with him alone. They also had an idea that people only go to the hospice to die. He didn't want to go to the hospice.

All of us joined together to help but then one day I knew he was dying and my mum hadn't realised. We quickly got him into the hospice. He agreed to go to the 'Macmillan hospital'. After he was admitted and we saw people walking around watching television and my mother regretted him not going there earlier.

I think it would have been better if the professionals had been more persuasive and had more understanding of the older generation and their reluctance to have strangers caring for them.