Hi all.
Regarding my patient from last week... Discharged with a functional ability better than her pre-morbid status so well pleased.
This has been an interesting week on 3K. Things are going pretty well. One of the most interesting parts of the week was a visit to Mercy Hospital Restorative Unit. I spent Wednesday morning doing home visits with the ACAT nurse and social worker. It was a bit of an eye opener to get into the homes of the sort of people I might otherwise be treating on the ward. The people we visited all had different issues ranging from dementia to repeated falls to parkinsons. I found it interesting the amount of assistance that can be made available to people in the community, and moreso the huge amount of assistance that so many people need. Alot of the people we visited were frustrated by having to seek assistance in the first place and then more frustrated by the "you can have this, but not that" sort of system that seems to be in place. I understand that there are limited resources in the community, and I think that the ACAT workers I was with do a great job. I just couldn't shake the impression that there were so many needs going un met. A tough one
M
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Hi Martin
I have done that same prac and been on the same visits. I agree that it is hard to grasp the system and how certain people will qualify for certain things and sometimes it seems a bit rough that some people will qualify for things and others wone. However, everyone that we visited seemed so grateful to be getting assistance at all to help care for their loved one that they were really grateful regardless.
Mel.
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