Support for special outing
MarionCooper
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Hi,
My mother would like to attend her grandaughter's wedding this summer but this is proving difficult to arrange due to her physical difficulties.
A stroke has left my mother with a right sided paralysis and with incontinence. She currently resides in a care home and requires a lot of support including lifting using a hoist.
Does anyone know of a service that could accompany her to the wedding and be available to assist with toileting and /or changing?
Her daughters are happy to be involved but have no experience with hoists and are concerned for her safety?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Marion
My mother would like to attend her grandaughter's wedding this summer but this is proving difficult to arrange due to her physical difficulties.
A stroke has left my mother with a right sided paralysis and with incontinence. She currently resides in a care home and requires a lot of support including lifting using a hoist.
Does anyone know of a service that could accompany her to the wedding and be available to assist with toileting and /or changing?
Her daughters are happy to be involved but have no experience with hoists and are concerned for her safety?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Marion
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Obviously it depends on her needs... But you can book wheelchairs to borrow from British Red Cross they are fab!
Sorry I can't be more help -
Hi, some private care companies may offer services to accompany people to events as a companion/care worker. This may be worth a try? could the care home offer a solution/suggestion or could you perhaps pay a member of their bank staff privately? hope you find a solution
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Many thanks Abi and Mossy.
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You need to make sure that the reception venue has a changing places toilet. And hopefully the wedding place, or plan it another way. And thus hopefully try to make sure there's one nearby most of the time. They're not as common as we'd like them to be. There's private/commercial community nursing teams in most local areas, such as Bluebird Care, though there are many and I don't know enough about Bluebird Care or any of them to endorse them or otherwise. Best to do your research with something like that in mind but I think the elderly are their main business and they can be flexible.
The reason I focus on private care is that I don't know adult social care would be able to or if setting up a personalisation budget could happen fast enough.Autistic mother (they/them) not Autism Mom
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