My Dad (http://quercus.livejournal.com/tag/dad) has Parkinson's.
Last two-three years he has been in a residential care home. Two care homes, as the first one decreed him to have dementia (Parkinsons, it happens) and off-loaded him to the dementia home. This also changed his medical status and achieved NHS funding for him. One of the main criteria was attempting to get out of a chair on his own, thus being at risk of falling.
His Parkinson's becomes gradually worse. He no longer has the muscle control to lift himself out of a chair, let alone walk. In fact they've just given him a magic chair with side rests to it, to stop him slumping sideways.
All of which means he's now CURED!!
If you no longer have the strength to climb out of your chair and get yourself into trouble, you don't need the same level of dementia care, thus QED no longer need funding.
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:49 pm (UTC)Last two-three years he has been in a residential care home. Two care homes, as the first one decreed him to have dementia (Parkinsons, it happens) and off-loaded him to the dementia home. This also changed his medical status and achieved NHS funding for him. One of the main criteria was attempting to get out of a chair on his own, thus being at risk of falling.
His Parkinson's becomes gradually worse. He no longer has the muscle control to lift himself out of a chair, let alone walk. In fact they've just given him a magic chair with side rests to it, to stop him slumping sideways.
All of which means he's now CURED!!
If you no longer have the strength to climb out of your chair and get yourself into trouble, you don't need the same level of dementia care, thus QED no longer need funding.