Hi
It is a long time since I have posted anything. It has been a very difficult 12 months and I now find myself in a position I know very little about so any advice would be welcomed. My OH who has had early onset Parkinson's Disease and Early onset Alzheimers Dementia for the last 8 years and is 64 was moved to a Nursing Home last May as his Care Home couldn't cope with him. We have been having problems with him for some weeks now and he has been given several warnings about his unacceptable behaviour.
This afternoon I had a call from his Nursing Home to be told he was being given formal notice that he had to go and our Social Worker has been informed. I asked the Manager of the Nursing Home where he would go and she said a Mental Health Unit as no other Nursing Home would take him because of his behaviour. The final straw has been that he assaulted a member of Staff and has been performing sex acts on himself in front of Carers and other residents!! Previously he has stripped himself naked and walked about the Home until the Staff could get to him, poohed on the floor because he wants to tread in it and urinated wherever it takes his fancy.
I feel as if I am living in a world of 'make believe'
Is a Mental Health Unit the same as a Secure Unit? Who pays, the NHS or The Council/me as happens at the moment. I am really scared for him now and worried for myself as well as this is a situation over which I have no control. Does anyone out there have any first hand knowledge of a Mental Health Unit. If so some advice please.
Thanks for reading my post.
It is a long time since I have posted anything. It has been a very difficult 12 months and I now find myself in a position I know very little about so any advice would be welcomed. My OH who has had early onset Parkinson's Disease and Early onset Alzheimers Dementia for the last 8 years and is 64 was moved to a Nursing Home last May as his Care Home couldn't cope with him. We have been having problems with him for some weeks now and he has been given several warnings about his unacceptable behaviour.
This afternoon I had a call from his Nursing Home to be told he was being given formal notice that he had to go and our Social Worker has been informed. I asked the Manager of the Nursing Home where he would go and she said a Mental Health Unit as no other Nursing Home would take him because of his behaviour. The final straw has been that he assaulted a member of Staff and has been performing sex acts on himself in front of Carers and other residents!! Previously he has stripped himself naked and walked about the Home until the Staff could get to him, poohed on the floor because he wants to tread in it and urinated wherever it takes his fancy.
I feel as if I am living in a world of 'make believe'
Is a Mental Health Unit the same as a Secure Unit? Who pays, the NHS or The Council/me as happens at the moment. I am really scared for him now and worried for myself as well as this is a situation over which I have no control. Does anyone out there have any first hand knowledge of a Mental Health Unit. If so some advice please.
Thanks for reading my post.