My mother's been in an assessment centre for over 2 and a half years. I've been constantly telling them my concerns about the medication (my mother ended up in the assessment centre because of a massive overdose of medication which I told them about and virtually nothing's been done about it apart from when I've pestered for the medication to be lowered) but last week she had a mild stroke. I've no doubt the medication caused this.
My mother's in a normal hospital at the moment and touch wood seems to be improving a bit and I've told the doctors my concerns about the medication.
Hopefully she'll further improve and she'll obviously be discharged at some point but I really don't want my mother going back to that assessment centre. Most of the nurses's there seem pretty good but she's had some nasty injuries whilst in there and the noise some days is so bad even one of the nurses's said she felt like crying not to mention my concerns with the atitude of the consultant and doctors dealing with her who right everything off as dementia and won't admit the medication might be causing her problems. It's not a nice environment for my mother and confuses her more.
Anyway I don't have my own home and live with my father and he's unsure about her coming back home We certainly can't afford any of the care homes. We'd be bankrupt within a few weeks so is there anything else we can do? Any cheap alternatives?
My mother's in a normal hospital at the moment and touch wood seems to be improving a bit and I've told the doctors my concerns about the medication.
Hopefully she'll further improve and she'll obviously be discharged at some point but I really don't want my mother going back to that assessment centre. Most of the nurses's there seem pretty good but she's had some nasty injuries whilst in there and the noise some days is so bad even one of the nurses's said she felt like crying not to mention my concerns with the atitude of the consultant and doctors dealing with her who right everything off as dementia and won't admit the medication might be causing her problems. It's not a nice environment for my mother and confuses her more.
Anyway I don't have my own home and live with my father and he's unsure about her coming back home We certainly can't afford any of the care homes. We'd be bankrupt within a few weeks so is there anything else we can do? Any cheap alternatives?