Secret Care Home Resident

Not a parody account. Just the reality of living in one care home in 2023. All photos taken at this home.

[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Bedtime. For once no screaming, no windows shattering, just the all-night cicada-like rhythm of unanswered buzzer alarms to break the silence.

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Breakfast just arrived at eleven. No explanation why. Hot milk in cereals. No juice. Pretty normal.

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Whatever I think of this home, the carers are having a hell of a day. New resident arrived in ambulance- since then he’s done nothing but yell, bang on furniture and smash windows. Been in and out of ambulances all afternoon but his wife said‘I’m not bloody having him back!’

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I asked for an extra blanket because I was cold the other night (heating still not fixed). I haven’t dared ask for a new bed or something to chew or I’ll probably get a basket and a rubber bone.
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[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Today’s tea - tuna sandwiches. Yesterday’s lunch, fish fingers. They know I’m allergic to fish.

[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Heating in my room not worked since I moved in a couple of months ago. Keep telling care staff and they said they’d talk to the handyman. Still no sign of him.

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@Charlen79817293 I think so yes

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Currently more than twenty guests dressed to the nines, waiting in the conservatory to celebrate a resident’s birthday with a surprise party - decorations, music, food etc
Unfortunately, management failed to mention this to the staff…

[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Not sure whether to be relieved or angry

[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Just had a carer ask me for a stool sample so they could ‘test it for something’. After an hour of stress and worry I asked the in-house nurse what they were looking for and she just looked confused and said ‘No, not you.’

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@Charlen79817293 All too common among less expensive homes, I’m afraid. I’ll be posting much worse, all down to understaffing and unqualified carers.

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Today’s lunch - cold lasagne and no pudding (they forgot again)

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Nothing wrong with breakfast this morning. It never turned up. Let’s see if there’s a lunch

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@Gyro007 @50NerdsofGrey I wish

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Guess today’s lunch…

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@mygingerbits @50NerdsofGrey Bingo!

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@lindalewis58 @MrsStephenFry Close, dear

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@Billinsoton Half a point

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@Metakarp Nope

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@ligarius @MrsStephenFry Thank you but I’m a resident.

[Secret Care Home Resident @CareHomeSecrets]

Hope you slept well last night. Mine was filled with the usual shouts and screams, unanswered personal alarms and a visit from Meg - a lank white-haired resident in white nightdress who wanders the corridors day in, day out like a ghost. She asked where she was and why then left.