Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Sorry to appear from nowhere! But after the discussion on dementia last week I wanted to make sure you saw the Grauniad article.

You're very welcome. Please stay/come again .... as you know, we don't bite here

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

This probably doesn't help but I got attacked by swans/a swan swimming in the Thames. It was pretty hardcore:eek:

LydiaJ wrote: »

Just wanted to contribute to the phobia discussion. I have two. One is drowning, with a particular emphasis on any form of being trapped or constrained underwater. The other is swans - I am always sure they are going to attack me if I go anywhere near them.

Duly noted!

Avatar begone!:wave:

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

De-lurking to say there's an article on Dementia came up in the Grauniad on Saturday:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/11/losing-mother-dementia-sally-magnusson

Both my parents died with dementia nearly 7 years ago (estates still not finally wound up! :eek: ), Dad had vascular dementia but was still "himself" to the end. Mum had dementia given as primary cause of death on death certificate. She most certainly wasn't "herself", luckily she did apologise to my girls and OH about how awful she was to them, but she never did to me. But she thought I was her sister so maybe fair enough - long story.

Currently my dear MiL is in Nursing Home with prob some form of dementia - short term memory is shot. If you visit in afternoon she will say not had any visitors even though some were signed in at front door to NH that morning.

Sorry to appear from nowhere! But after the discussion on dementia last week I wanted to make sure you saw the Grauniad article.

Thank you for linking ( and nice to see you here too ). What a beautifully written extract. Tears flowed. How is compassion so much easier for the situation of others? No frustration I suppose.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

You're very welcome. Please stay/come again .... as you know, we don't bite here

Maggie is lovely folks.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

In that case, think about the following in your design:
Make sure there's room for the chair lift to sit at the bottom of the stairs; the seat pivots round certainly 90 degrees, but think about how they'll get on the seat.
Try not to have any bends in the stairs - bends make the stairlift harder to install and possibly more scarey for the RP.
Make sure there are no windows on the stair walls as it could cause issues if the chair's going to be routed past it.
Make sure there's a good clear space on the top landing for alighting too - and somewhere to put a grab rail so they don't come off the chair when alone and tumble down the stairs.
Make sure the stairs are plenty wide enough because before you get to the stairlift stage you'll be doing some assisted helping them up the stairs so need width for two people (people might be you, or could be a carer, Doctor or anybody).



I've seen my mum try to negotiate a stairlift - and it wasn't easy. The one I watched her using was in a care home and she was shaky at the top of the stairs getting on it (and confused/tried to move the seat before sitting on it), then it went round a corner, which always took her by surprise and the speed changes on turns/bends, which can be offputting/concerning.
thats all really useful.


If it's for "anybody", including a holiday let, then try to make sure any garden space isn't overlooked - there's nothing worse than stepping outside to be faced with the house owner and family sitting at their breakfast table looking out
we're thinking an 'occasional' door will be at the garden end. This will be great if its RP or friends / teen agers, but sealable if its let to someone else ever.
I've lived in a lot of studios, annexes, holiday lets etc, so have experienced many different issues. I'm in one now!


I can't visualise. I'll also never have the chance to design something from scratch; I'll have to just buy something that is poorly designed.

I can at first. Then when you look at something for so long seeing one thing in your mind its hard for me to unbend my vision. . Even my visualisation is stubborn

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

Maggie is lovely folks.

Thank you LiR! :j Blushes!

I'm far from lovely actually. But it's nice of LiR to say I am.

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Thank you LiR! :j Blushes!

I'm far from lovely actually. But it's nice of LiR to say I am.

Course you are. .



O,g one of my I favourite nurseries in on tv......

LydiaJ

Catching up a little more - still a long way behind the rest of you though.

Spirit wrote: »

We were going to go up by train but it was £115 for the three of us and £13 to park and took an hour and 40 mins to Waterloo. We drove, parked in Chinatown paid £36 and reached home an hour and forty minutes. So faster and cheaper to go in a car. Am I wrong for thinking this ludicrous?

Outside of the capital, public transport is almost always slower and more expensive than driving, not to mention monumentally inconvenient.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've seen property for sale that doesn't have any windows you can access in a fire. I'll go and find links in a minute, if I can. It was a studio flat and the only windows seemed to be high up in the ceiling, no chance of reaching. I wondered how that'd get through fire regs....

Edit found it. It had been on at £100k when I first spotted it, now it's about £77k

If you read it says "top floor/studio".
If you look at the floorplan it shows only velux windows. Description reads "Three Velux style windows"
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30139471.html

Now, that would scare me. I'm not particularly paranoid about fire - I do things like running the washing machine overnight that some of you wouldn't - but I do need to know that I would be able to get out if by any chance there was a fire.

When I bought the house it had two smoke detectors - one at the bottom of the stairs and one at the top. I have also had one put in the utility room, since it's a long way away from the other two detectors.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

thames ditton island was on the news yesterday - was completely awash. some woman was talking about her buildings insurance premium being £8,000 for a 1.5 bedroom house. it is one of the areas we were looking at (not the island itself but some of the streets near the river which are also flooded at the moment i think). i don't think we'll be looking there any more. i always think about the risk in london being from a storm surge but clearly not!

I have too many friends who've been flooded out of their homes - especially in 2007 when we had lots of floods over this side of the country. The county council flood risk map was one of my key websites when house hunting.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I can at first. Then when you look at something for so long seeing one thing in your mind its hard for me to unbend my vision. . Even my visualisation is stubborn

One I stayed in, for 6 months, had a dual purpose. Imagine a house and the hallway.... there is a door and you step into a room. Across the room is another door, open that and you're in the annexe. What they had was an annexe consisting of an en-suite bedroom, then a living room with kitchen down one side, then another en-suite bedroom. The three rooms (in a straight line) were joined to the house hallway.

In summer they rented it out as a 2-bed holiday let. In winter they kept the 2nd bedroom off the hallway, for themselves and locked the next door, enabling a 1-bedroom annexe. The entrance door was into the living room, accessible up the side of the house.

They sold the house - I'll see if there's a floorplan.

Edit: No floorplan, it wasn't even listed on RM. Sold last year.

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Duly noted!

Avatar begone!:wave:

No no! Bring the avatar back. I find avatars helpful to keep track of who's posted what, and I'm not in the slightest bit afraid of pictures of swans. I'm not even afraid of real swans if they can't get at me because of being behind a window or a long way away or something.