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.
Well said, Ed...well said....
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.