Abbey said her dad was the “life and soul of the party” and that “everyone gravitated towards him”.<\/p>\n
However, she noticed a change once he stopped working as he did not like to leave the house, work in the garden, or go to the pub.<\/p>\n
He was even “overwhelmed” by the people around him, including when Abbey visited with his grandchildren, she said.<\/p>\n
“I was concerned but I found it a bit draining as well because I didn’t know what to do or what to say to make him feel better,” she added.<\/p>\n
Abbey believes early intervention is key and that a visit to the house from a medical professional would have helped.<\/p>\n
She has called for home visits to be made mandatory when someone shows signs of mental ill health or are not willing to leave their home for a GP appointment.<\/p>\n
“If someone had come into the home, and they could have seen how dad was, his body language… he could barely speak, he could barely make eye contact.<\/p>\n
“You would know he was not mentally well and something could have been put in place to help him,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abbey said her dad was the “life and soul of the party” and that “everyone gravitated towards him”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-521183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}