My MIL was placed in a fantastic nursing home after being in hospital, psychiatric ward for 5.5 months. She is now back in hospital due to her being racially abusive, swearing at other residents visitors, refusal to eat or drink, high levels of paranoia, refusing to take any medication, she's also insulin dependent diabetic. The final incident that go her moved back to a psychiatric ward was her boiling a kettle and threatening to pour it on one of the members of staff, luckily another staff member stopped her.
Her behaviour has settled down since being in hospital as she thinks she is there due to a sore leg.
I'm finding it difficult as I know she thinks there is nothing wrong with her and that her mental health is fine and can't remember what she's done.
She thought that she was an inmate with mental patients in the nursing home.
We found notes in her room of how she hates us and we don't care and have abandoned her. I haven't slept a full night since her decline in mental health (frontal lobe dementia)I am constantly phoning to see how she is, I'm the person that buys what she wants and needs and had a huge fight on my hands to get her into the nursing home that she's now no longer in.
I know she's only happy in hospital but am aware that this is not a longterm placement, she's just under assessment and then we have to look again for a nursing home, but she's not going to settle anywhere but hospital.
I feel we can't win and am loosing sleep and patience with everything, where do we go from here?
DogLady
Her behaviour has settled down since being in hospital as she thinks she is there due to a sore leg.
I'm finding it difficult as I know she thinks there is nothing wrong with her and that her mental health is fine and can't remember what she's done.
She thought that she was an inmate with mental patients in the nursing home.
We found notes in her room of how she hates us and we don't care and have abandoned her. I haven't slept a full night since her decline in mental health (frontal lobe dementia)I am constantly phoning to see how she is, I'm the person that buys what she wants and needs and had a huge fight on my hands to get her into the nursing home that she's now no longer in.
I know she's only happy in hospital but am aware that this is not a longterm placement, she's just under assessment and then we have to look again for a nursing home, but she's not going to settle anywhere but hospital.
I feel we can't win and am loosing sleep and patience with everything, where do we go from here?
DogLady