A Gateshead pensioner with dementia is "confused and distressed" after being told she would be discharged from hospital to a home she and her daughter consider a danger to her.
Ivy Evelyn Wilkinson, 90, has been a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead since August 15. Her daughter Cheryl had been looking after her, despite her own osteoarthritis since the start of the year, but by August her mother's dementia had left her unable to cope.
Since then she has been in hospital, but she was left "distressed", Cheryl said, after being given a discharge letter saying she would be returned to her home - which has two storeys and issues with the plumbing and wiring. Cheryl - who has legal power of attorney for her mum - argues that they both think the only safe option is for her to move into a specialist residential home for those with dementia.
