Response 299357182

Back to Response listing

Questions Part 1

1. Do you agree with the overall aim that people living in adult care homes have the right to see and spend time with those who are important to them in order to support their health and wellbeing?

Please select one item
Yes
No
I don't know
Please explain your answer in the text box below
It is a basic human need to have contact with those that matter to you. It is all the more important when you are in a Care Home. It is also important for the family and friends to keep up that contact with their loved on in the Care Home. Isolation and loneliness can have a devastating effect on people.

2. What do you think should be the main aims of Anne’s Law?

Please explain your answer in the text box below
To ensure family and friends can be in contact and visit with their loved one in the Care Home at all times.

3. Do you think this should be a right for residents or for the visitor (s)?

Please select one item
For resident
For visitor(s)
For both
I do not think there should be rights for either resident or visitor
Please explain your answer in the text box below
Both resident and visitor have the basic human requirement for contact and love and a right to family life which includes contact with those important to them.

Questions Part 2

4. How can the rights of residents be balanced against the rights of other people in the setting for example other residents, staff, visiting professionals?

Please explain your answer in the text box below
With proper staffing levels and good management each resident can have visits and contact from their family and loved ones.

5. What do you see as the main benefits, challenges and risks of the proposal to develop legislation to support people living in adult care homes to have the right to see and spend time with those who are important to them?

Benefits - Please explain your answer in the text box below
Keeping up that contact will benefit people's mental wellbeing. Enable them to feel still connected to their friends and family. The flip side is the family and friends still feel connected to their loved one and get to spend quality time with them in their twilight years.
Challenges - Please explain your answer in the text box below
Managing visits and have enough staff to enable this.
Risks - Please explain your answer in the text box below
More risk of infection from Covid as well as other infections, colds etc. But I think the benefits far out-weigh the risks.

6. Should the proposals apply only to people who live in an adult care home (residential and nursing) registered with the Care Inspectorate?

Please select one item
Yes
No
I don't know
Please explain your answer in the text box below
No, in hospital settings as well.

Questions Part 3

7. Please provide any further comments on the proposals

Please explain your answer in the text box below
I have seen the heartache of family not being allowed to visit their loved ones in Care Homes. Also the devastating effect this isolation from friends and family can have on residents.

About you

Are you responding as an individual or an organisation?

Please select one item
(Required)
Individual
Organisation

What is your organisation?

Befrienders Highland