Uncle's Discharge Meeting

I feel utterly weary after yesterday, I feel drained mentally and spiritually even though not particularly physically.

As soon as the hospital can manage it, uncle is going to a residential home near me.  I'm starting the research on that.  The healthcare professionals were pretty clear that uncle needed residential care, there was no question.

Uncle has accepted that.  One of the most dispiriting things about yesterday was the clear signs that uncle was ready for everyone to do the thinking for him.  He side tracked, de-railed and generally was not engaged.  As far as we all can tell he is making an informed decision, but I expect a few bumps later on.

It is unlikely that uncle could physically manage to get into his own home now, so we somehow have to work out what he will need to take with him, what he would like to take with him and what is actually possible.  As uncle is a hoarder with the mentality that everything has utility and value, even a bit of rubbish, and that he will read the books he hasn't touched for ten years (and can't actually see due to extremely poor eyesight), and that he needs stuff that hasn't seen the light of day since before bear was born, this is going to be interesting.  I am suggesting a storage unit for the first six months so that he can find out what he needs/doesn't need.  He has slept in his armchair for years and you can't get into the bedrooms.  It is a flash, all singing, all dancing, tilting electric armchair.  It is still not a bed.  There isn't a bed in the house.

After that there is the clearance and sale of the home.  I am putting off thinking about that for a bit.