Identified! Australia - Live Female, thought over 70, Nambour Hospital, Queensland, 6 Sept 2020 - name withheld

[TootsieFootsie]

How did she support herself before ? On a pension maybe ?

I wonder if there was talk at the hospital about putting her in the care of a guardian, which sort of forced her to speak up.

I imagine they've checked out who she says she is and are satisfied that she is that person.

I wonder if this is the last we'll hear ?

How can nobody has ever seen her before ?

 

[SouthAussie]

How did she support herself before ? On a pension maybe ?

I wonder if there was talk at the hospital about putting her in the care of a guardian, which sort of forced her to speak up.

I imagine they've checked out who she says she is and are satisfied that she is that person.

I wonder if this is the last we'll hear ?

How can nobody has ever seen her before ?

Well, it will take a very short time for the authorities to find out if someone is getting a carer's pension for taking care of her.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Unless they weren't getting paid ?

Well, it will take a very short time for the authorities to find out if someone is getting a carer's pension for taking care of her.

 

[JLZ]

She has revealed her identity to the police and I would think to the hospital. I think you just can't walk away from an identity--what if the person has debts?

However, on Sunday police advised that she had finally told them her name and address.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/na...nd-tells-police-her-name-20201004-p561wq.html

Edit: Ah, I see Tootsie posted this information way back.

 

[LadyL]

it's very sad
I hope she will be ok

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Was just listening to ABC news radio and there was a Police spokesman on.
He said she says she knows who she is and has not and will not be revealing it to anyone. Not the medical staff and not the Police, no one.
He said that is her right.

 

[JLZ]

I wonder if she's had bad medical experiences and doesn't want the records connected.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

That could very well be a reason.

I wonder if she's had bad medical experiences and doesn't want the records connected.

 

[they'll get you]

When my mum reached into her 80’s she had times of paranoia thinking the govt had listening devices and was controlling her, it was a genuine fear. Her dementia came in waves. She wanted escape and go bush and grow her own veges, then the next day she was perfect again.
Maybe this is what’s happening here and some meds will help. Life can be cruel.

 

[JLZ]

"The Public Guardian will also be assisting her with repatriation and her needs, and what those needs are, I'm unaware," Superintendent Hawkins said.
Elderly woman left outside hospital 'aware of identity' but refusing to reveal who she is

BBM, meaning she's a foreigner?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Maybe it means returning her to her home?
But how can they do that without her revealing where it is ?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Information to support the repatriation of residents – general guidance Factsheet: 10 September 2020 | Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

Information to support the repatriation of residents – general guidance Factsheet: 10 September 2020 (207.54 KB)

This factsheet provides a brief overview of the process for preparing to return several residents to their residential aged care facility (RACF) from hospital.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Advice for families of aged care residents in Victoria

Options when leaving hospital

Once there is no clinical need for residents to be in hospital, residents and their families will choose where the resident would like to live. In Victoria, this process is called ‘repatriation’.

Options are:

returning to the current aged care home
moving to a new aged care home
moving to a family home.

 

[MsBetsy]

Maybe it means returning her to her home?
But how can they do that without her revealing where it is ?

No one has mentioned an accent.

Yes, repatriation means returned to one's county. Sounds like her story will forever remain a secret.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I imagine the process of deciding where to live after being in hospital is also called Repatriation in Queensland.

 

[they'll get you]

Mum would call me from 3 hours away while she was searching for a sister who died 20 years prior. She refused meds.
After a horrific accident my mum went into a nursing home where she gets everything she needs.

 

[MsBetsy]

Information to support the repatriation of residents – general guidance Factsheet: 10 September 2020 | Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

Information to support the repatriation of residents – general guidance Factsheet: 10 September 2020 (207.54 KB)

This factsheet provides a brief overview of the process for preparing to return several residents to their residential aged care facility (RACF) from hospital.

Oh, so maybe she is a citizen and she left her RACF, and will be returning there. I wonder if she wandered off and got lost. I would have thought they would have been looking for her, though. At least she is safe now.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Maybe she wasn't in an aged care home, and that's why no one from an aged care home was looking for her.
Most likely she was in a private home and maybe lived alone.

Doesn't explain that no one at all seems to know her, no Dr, no shop assistants, no friends or seemingly anyone who has met her.

 

[JLZ]

Advice for families of aged care residents in Victoria

Options when leaving hospital

Once there is no clinical need for residents to be in hospital, residents and their families will choose where the resident would like to live. In Victoria, this process is called ‘repatriation’.

Options are:

returning to the current aged care home
moving to a new aged care home
moving to a family home.

I do hope she's given options other than returning to a home where no one seems to have missed her.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I hope so too.

I do hope she's given options other than returning to a home where no one seems to have missed her.