Posted on 07/29/2015 3:04:22 PM PDT by hondact200
Today, I was informed by the nursing home that it is in the process of moving 2 current residents from Alzheimer's Unit to the general floor, and there will be an opening within the next 7 - 10 days. Started the process for nursing home placement for my mother with now advanced Alzheimer's Disease in December 2014. Anticipated August 7, 2015 admission date.
It couldn’t have been an easy decision. Continued prayers for you and your mother.
I understand. My Mom is 95. She still lives at home with me... but life can be difficult
We have been where you are, it’s so painful, but there does come a time when it’s necessary to turn your mother’s care over to professionals who can be there 24.7/365.=. Continue to visit her regularly, even tho she may appear not to know who you are. It’s important these patients have a sense that someone is caring for them, and it’s important that the staff at the nursing home knows you will be there, not abandoning your mother as so many do.
God bless you for the care you’ve given your mother. Please do something to take care of yourself. You’ve been through, and continue to go through, quite an ordeal.
(I never heard of moving an Alzheimers patient from the Alz unit to the general floor. It’s a progressive disease, no one gets better, so the return to a general unit doesn’t make a lot of sense to me... maybe I’m missing something).
There’s plenty of dementia cases that are not Alzheimer’s.
Many thoughts and lots of sympathy headed your way...
Why haven’t we been told that this is one of the toughest times of our lives?
With the kids pretty settled and the homestead peaceful, you get hit with care and concern for elderly parents...
That’s why G-d made alcohol....
Well said, Ed...well said....
I understand.....
Continued prayers for your Mom and you, hondact200. I can only imagine the last four years have been unbelievably trying and difficult at best. I am very happy that some normalcy can re-enter your life. (((Hugs)))
I’m probably right behind her—there are days when I can tell that my family’s worried about me—and I’m not joking.
The old saying: “LIFES’ A B#TCH—AND THEN YOU DIE” gets more relevant here every day.
I’m sure you have checked the nursing home out very carefully, and will be watching her closely to be sure she’s being properly cared for.
Prayers going up for your mother…….
Prayers sent.
It’s a hard choice to make. I had to make it myself in 2005 with my stepdad. But the care he received was far better than anything I could have given him. $4k a month was money well spent IMO.
Prayers for your mother and your family in coping.
Can’t be easy for you. Prayers offered for you and your family.
So sorry to hear that. Stay strong.
Prayers.
Yeah, but the post said they were moving two pts from the Alz unit to a general floor. I have a friend whose husband has a form of dementia that’s supposed to be worse than Alz, in addition to Alz. Don’t even want to think about that!
They do it when the person is no longer a flight {wander off} risk to make more availability on a secure unit for new patients who can wander off. They also do it when medical condition requires a more skilled level of care medical wise.
My sister was in an assisted living memory care unit for over two years. She was a high flight risk and had to be in a secure facility at the time. After two years her disease {Dementia} had progressed to where I thought she needed a nursing home so they could restrain her to prevent falls as frequent as three a day. I got her into a nursing home I trusted {I'm a former employee of several of them} and she lived another year but did not try to wander off from there.
I know that was a had decision to make for you and your family. But fr all a right decision. The level of care and 24/7 every second of the day care is beyond most families capacities and abilities. Too not all patients have the same behavioral patterns. My sister for example knew me till the day she died. A patient doing what we called the Thorazine Shuffle could suddenly take off like a track star and be gone. Where I worked at I chased down a lot of patients. That was in the days before secure Memory Care units in most places.
Thanks for that info. I hadn’t thought/realized they could reach a point where the wandering tapered off, much less thought about the increased need for medical care. Learn something new every day. What a complex world our health care system involves, with so many variations on each and every ailment. I hope it can survive the coming years.
Last nursing home I worked in was a five story one. The third floor was mainly Alzheimer and Dementia patients. That was 21 years ago and they were installing technology so the patients on that floor could not get in the elevator and leave the building. The stairway doors had loud alarms on them also.
It's all come a long ways since I worked at them. There wasn't assisted living in most places either. As a matter of fact we were just starting a building for that purpose.
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