Tenant keeps setting fire to house

[KevinS]

personally i think that the whole thread is pointless
all that needs to be done is get the person into care
end of

If the thread is pointless, why are you wasting everyone's time posting pointless comments

also I am an electrician, not a social worker/ carer. Lets just hope sometime in the future either you or one of your loved ones never has a mental illness, we will see how soon you want them put into care.

 

[timo1]

Care for those that need it varies on loads of things like reaction to medication, periods of stress and the receivers of care are given a certain amount of free reign to see how they cope. Not everyone who has issues can be put into care, and many that get care still live a relatively normal life working etc...

 

[ferg]

Bloody tragic IMO. That this person doesn't have anybody to care for him.

He clearly does have someone caring for him or the OP wouldn't have posted the thread.

Full time care sounds like the right thing to do for lots of folks until you realise what it involves.
Would you really want someone living in your house 24/7 watching your every move?
Even worse being taken out of your home and forced to live with people you don't know and might not even like?

There are loads of good posts on this thread that might give the OP ideas on how to let this guy live in his own home, living his own life safely.

A common solution, which may already have been mentioned, is to have a fire detection system connected to an auto-dialer that phones the carer and alerts them.

there are also systems where you can work out when and where someone is moving around there home.
This means you can easily see patterns forming in behaviour and have someone nearby or present at those times.

Something as simple as a help call system which dials 3 numbers in list of priority can make all the difference.

In short I can see why people might think 24/7 care is the answer but most of the time it can be avoided.

 

[vjsmarwick]

Seeing the lockable covers for the sockets would the same cover not work on the cooker switch also ? Then problem solved.

But I would hate to be in this guys position stuck in a house where he can't make anything to eat or even a hot drink if I get the that stage please someone shoot me ?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Seeing the lockable covers for the sockets would the same cover not work on the cooker switch also ? Then problem solved.

But I would hate to be in this guys position stuck in a house where he can't make anything to eat or even a hot drink if I get the that stage please someone shoot me ?

Yes .... it's a horrible situation to be in.

In the early days of my caring for Mum, I hadn't realised how bad she was nor how much worse she would become and tried to let her have her independence. It ended-up with her making herself ham sandwiches from raw bacon and eating them, making coffee from gravy salt and drinking it etc. - the list is endless.

I did seriously think about putting her into a care home, and on one weekend every month she went there for respite care just to give me a break, but every time she was there she had "accidents" which always resulted in her being taken to hospital to be patched up & returned to me so I kept her at home where she had no "falls" or "accidents" and did my best for her for three years until she died at the age of 84, thinking that I was her uncle and wondering when her mother was coming home from work.

 

[vjsmarwick]

I have known many in the same boat my grandmother included and my own mother is starting to forget things now too. But she is almost 80 so I guess at that age it has to be hard to remember everything as for care home naa not as long as I am fit. We had a disabled daughter that used to go in to care to give us a break worst thing ever I will never forgive myself. She is gone now and I hate even thinking of her time in there.


Good luck guys count your blessings not your money !!!!

 

[tigerpaul]

Sorry if this has been said already,
What about simply hard wiring the appliances into flex outlet spurs.
Some of them MK I think are lockable now.

I don't agree with the guy that said to just shove the person into care. That's a typical thoughtless response to the ops genuine question.