So since my last post there have been more developments..... had a dreadful pod visit with mum yesterday who is clearly very unhappy with her new unit. She has been put on a quiet unit with only 8 people but it turns out they are much more advanced than mum, most of them stay in their rooms and the few who are in the lounge have some challenging behaviour which mum finds hard to understand why she is with them and misses the company she had on the residential unit. I usually bombard her with news and reminiscences which prevents a lot of upset but yesterday she was clearly very unhappy and I could tell it was more than the usual wanting to go home stuff, she was saying she wanted to lie down and be shot which is not usual for her. She has also had a couple of episodes of agresssion to the staff which is completely out of character and I think could be down to the new meds (Mitrazpine) she threw her specs at a wall and broke them on Monday! But it could also be because she is frustrated and unhappy. Anyway, one of the staff members saw how upset we both were and came and listen to mums concerns about where she is and recognised she missed company she used to have. She got management to ring me and they are going to try her on the other dementia unit which is a lot busier, but apparently has people more at mum's stage and there will be 16 of them and from what I can gather probably not as advanced as the people where she currently is. I think the reason they didn't move her to this busier unit was because there was no room free, but there is now, however they sold it to me that ' a quieter space will be better for your mum' and neglected to mention that most residents were quite advanced. They took mum to the new unit briefly yesterday but she asked to go back - I imagine the busyness and noise were probably a bit much. They are going to try her on it today straight after breakfast and see how it goes. I know nowhere is going to be perfect as mum just wants to be with me or living at home, but I am just really hoping she can find some nice people to be friends with and this will outweigh the fact that is may be a bit noisy etc Speaking to the home this afternoon to see how it is and if ok I think they will move her bedroom etc today. Wish me luck - third time lucky!!!!