| Topic: | Re: Retirement Costs | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 23/06/11 12:33:00 |
| You may also need to add Chiropodist's costs. Toenails in particular can become very difficult to cut - and not just because your feet seem to become further away. After more than three months in hospital I asked whether this could be done there for MIL - after all comfortable feet are likely to make the walking experience easier and therefore help to get her out of there. But no I was told that they aren't allowed to cut the toenails of someone with diabetes (wonder what percentage of the elderly that is - it was certainly three-quarters of the ward) and they thought that by the time the Chiropody Dept saw her she would have left hospital (or be no longer with them). I notice that Age Concern run some sort of session in Ealing and I wonder whether we shouldn't be campaigning for some other agency to set up sessions in our hospitals since the hospitals can't do this. (Maybe Rachael will comment.) |