David's new home

Today David is moving to a house that will give him more Independence. Three "clients" share a three bed roomed semi in a nice part of a neighbouring town. Staff presence will be in normal working hours only with a phone link for all other times. He will also do all his own catering. His mother and I will need to visit regularly at first to get him into a proper regime. David is very concerned about his weight and the diet at his present residence still serves up too many calories. There is a great need for staff training in this area.

The new house is only one hundred metres from the riverside where he can easily get to the countryside where he can jog. He can have his own fridge in his room so he will have more choice over his food. This can go two ways. If he has the will power and stocks only lean meat, vegetables and salad he should be able to change his lifestyle. If he can lose weight he will be a lot happier.

We have some concern over the cleanliness of one of the other clients - and the other two smoke everywhere. In due course we will have to rectify this.