Jim has been very agitated since the weekend I was called to the NH on saturday because he had hit one of his carers ( his favourite one too) and was threatening another resident. I spent 4 hours with him really just trying to make sure he was OK. Then Sunday he was getting quite agressive shouting and threatening so I stayed with him all afternoon until night staff came on duty.. The staff are very good and had managed to distract him. We were to have had a meeting next Monday to set up one to one care for him as he seems ok if he has someones undivided attention. However I visited him yesterday and the weather was nice so my daughter and I took him out to a local park and we had lunch there when we took him back to the NH he was tired but some of the things he was saying led me to believe that the "nasty" JIm was lurking I did tell the staff this before I left him . At three thirty I had a phone message to say that Jim had got aggressive and threatening with another resident and when the staff tried to intervene he became very angry and was lashing out it took four carers to stop him and he kicked one of them very hard in the chest and hurt her. I called his case manager and the home were in touch with his CPN. I have just had a call to say that they are admitting Jim to Hospital to the mental health assessment unit to try and sort out his medication needs. I have fought really hard not to have this happen but he has become such a danger to staff residents and himself there really is no option they have told me not to visit but ring the ward at tea time to see how he is if they need me they will ring.
Jim still has insight at times and I am so worried that he will be unsettled even more by this and think I have abandoned him.
Judith
Jim still has insight at times and I am so worried that he will be unsettled even more by this and think I have abandoned him.
Judith