Moving Into Residential Care Case Study

Sarah is 87 and lives alone. She has poor short term memory and often forgets to eat. Sometimes she neglects her personal hygiene. Her family talk about the possibility of moving into residential care. They decide that their mother understands the reasons for her concerns and the risk of living alone, and having weighed these up, she has the capacity to decide whether to stay at home and accept the consequences.

Result
After discussions with her family, and considering the options available to her, Sarah chose to move into her local care home so that she could feel safer and have easy access to care staff 24 hours a day. Her family respected her wishes.