Who should he contact?

Mar 17, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 5 Replies

Situation. Old friends of mine. Husband is now being cared for at home by wife. and carers. Basically dying of dementia. Son lives in house but works every day. Wife was doing everything, but got some kind of virus and now she isn't making sense any more. Just sitting there. For two weeks doing random s*it and not making sense.. What should son do? Mother wont see a doctor - never has. Doesn't trust them. She has held everything together for the last couple of years, and it looks like she has snapped.



Advice needed.


Possibly involve the local NHS crisis resolution and home treatment team?

A doctor plus a social worker can section someone for their own good, can be a brutal process, consider if it needs that before the son decides to act ...

The term used now instead of "approved social worker" in the Mental Health Act 1983 is "Approved Mental Health Professional". See

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Without doing the intervention nuclear options available just yet, probably he could talk to someone at the "Age UK Advice Line" on 0800

678 1602, and find out? Or visit their website.

She probably could do with some respite care, and that could be arranged. Not sectioning....

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But I'd have hoped that the visiting carers would have reported upstream what they had found, and that the local health authority is engaged because of his condition.

OK. Thanks. No - its not a danger to anyone

OK. Will pass that along

Yes. I don't really know what is happening.

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