Alzheimer’s OAP sectioned after ten homes reject him

A FATHER with Alzheimer’s disease has been turned away by ten care homes because his behaviour is too ‘challenging’.

Retired estate agent Michael Mitchell, 71, from Sale, Manchester, had to leave Shawe Lodge, in Urmston, when the care home closed last week.

Private firm Ampersand Care, which ran the home, said when the closure was announced it would be ‘working with health chiefs to find alternative accommodation for residents’. But none was found in the weeks before it closed. The father of two has now been sectioned and is in a specialist hospital.

His daughter Amy Mitchell, 27, said: ‘Ten homes have come to meet and assess him and said ‘‘we can’t take him on’’. They all said no.

‘It’s heartbreaking and so frustrating. Me and my mum have no trust in the system whatsoever because it’s been so turbulent throughout the whole process. For my dad it’s really upsetting. He’s in a confused state of mind, it’s just not acceptable.’

Trafford Council and the area’s NHS clinical commissioning group said relocating Mr Mitchell and other residents from Shawe Lodge had ‘proved to be a difficult task as some of them have complex needs’. Charity Age UK called the case ‘tragic’.