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The closure of a care home provided to be “very traumatic, distressing and heart breaking” for the old folk living there.
Singleton Park Care Home was shut at the end of 2021 after its registration was suspended due to care concerns.
It was briefly taken over by the council but after no alternative care provider came forward, they had to find homes for the 33 residents there.
The 2021/22 annual performance report for Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care Partnership reveals that the majority of staff “did not want to leave their jobs despite having been through an extremely stressful time”.
They had hoped a new provider would be found and they could keep their jobs. Of those who found alternative employment, some have now left the health and social care sector.
And the closure was “very traumatic, distressing and heart breaking for the people living there, their families, friends and advocates”, with some “unaware of what was going on around them”.
The report includes the example of one Singleton Park resident who “chose it to be her final home”.
The 96-year-old was aware of the changes that were taking place and when she discovered it was closing “she found it unsettling to start with and this worsened as the weeks passed”.
When she realised the home was closing, “she became clearly distressed” and she became “anxious and confused”.
The report adds: “She was very clear that she felt she was being taken out of her home against her will; the home she had chosen to be her last. She was supported to settle into her new home.”
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