Find the best care home for Archers Jack Woolley
“Peggy is struggling to find a care home for her husband, Jack as he faces the tragic mental decline of Dementia, on the Radio 4 show ‘The Archers’. The sensitive handling of the story line has been widely praised, but the show has only touched on the difficulty of actually finding a good care home. Peggy has very little information to guide her choice and may stick to the familiar (but perhaps not best) local option ‘The Laurels’.”
To create a wider discussion about the difficulty in finding care homes, a light hearted (but with a serious message) appeal has been made by the best care homes website to find a dementia care home for Jack.
The serious side of this is the real difficulty faced by people looking for care homes. The decision is often needed at fairly short notice and desperately stressful circumstances, by people who have never undertaken such a task before. The decision has enormous implications for their parent or partner, impacting almost every aspect of their loved ones welfare – often for the remaining years of their lives.
So the suggestion of this appeal (affiliated to CareHomeNews) is that people with actual experience of choosing care homes, share this experience and use the fictional example of Jack Woolley to show how they would go about it with the information currently available.
