EXCLUSIVE: Social workers told not to ask dementia patients who PM is due to high turnaround | Social workers were warned during training sessions to refrain from asking dementia patients who the current Prime Minister is due to the high turnaround of leaders amid Tory turmoil

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  1. My favourite answer to this question from a charming lady in her nineties when performing a mini mental test was “it doesn’t fucking matter, they’re all bastards”.

    I marked it as a correct response.

  3. Had to stop asking when over half the dementia patients claimed they were the prime minister…

  4. Bwahahaha.

    Hahahahaha

    Hahahahaha

    I’m sorry to all those who suffer from dementia or who it touches and I am not making light of them.

    But the fact this guidance **exists** is an absolute laughing stock of a joke of the state of our affairs after 12 years and 5 Tory PMs.

  6. Once I asked a women if she was okay. She said she was fine and to take Tony Blair with me the next time and f off. I used to work a dementia ward

  9. They don’t want the last group of people who will actually vote for them to realize their government isn’t stable anymore.

  12. Hahaha can we have a general election yet, or are the Tories just going to continue running the country into the ground? Ah yeah, the latter has always been their preference 😑

  13. “Doris, do you know who the Prime Minister is?”, “Liz Truss”…

    “Off to the home with you now Doris”… “She’s clearly out of it…”

  15. I thought after Thatcher left that the question got withdrawn innfavour of who is the monarch. As Major was so dull compared to her.

  18. Instead they should stick to simpler questions such as “how many children do you have?”, “what’s the difference between a party and a work event?”, Or “do you remember meeting the girl in the picture with you?”. An acceptable answer to the latter should they have no recollection of said girl, can comprise a thorough description of a Pizza Express in Woking.

  19. It’s bad enough asking who the staff are looking after them, ‘some new agency person ‘ we are 400 hours a week down at the moment.

    Me. Have you tried paying more than £9.50?

    Them. No, we’ll pay agency £24 instead.

  27. Yeah, I remember when they had to stop asking that question last time around—in the late 1980s, when Thatcher had been PM for a decade.

    (As a quickie dementia test it only really works if the PM has been in office for 1-8 years. Less than a year, they may not have stuck in memory: more than 8 years, they’ve been around forever.)

  31. May 2010, consultant: who’s the Prime Minister?
    Me: dunno, do you know?
    Consultant: … now you mention it, no. That’s not a useful question, is it?

    Coalition govt announced day or two later.

  32. Jeez and Matt fucking Hancock said it was a good time for him to piss off to the Australian jungle because the government is stable

  33. When you ask them to draw a clock do they draw a hang man instead? With the word bastards under it? Does that count as a pass?

  34. “Who’s the Prime Minister dear?

    “Benjamin Disraeli, he’s a bastard.”

    “Yeah, that’s near enough. I’m pleased to say you do not have dementia.”

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