Parent refused home aide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I hope the aide can come in anyway. In such situations, the plan is that the elderly person with dementia gets used to someone coming in regularly.

Yeah agencies have understand this is normal. The paperwork is not for naught. You can try again another day.

[Anonymous]

If the parent has not been legally declared incompetent then you cannot force someone into their home. It is indeed frustrating but there’s nothing you can do. Many of us have been through the experience of having clearly-needed aides hired and rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell her a “therapeutic lie” to make the idea of an aide coming in more palatable. Can you tell her that the aide needs her because she’s in training? She needs to work with someone who is healthy and capable (because having an aide is a sign she’s getting older and no one wants to feel that way) as a part of her training before she can work with someone who really needs her.

Ooh that’s a good one!!