Hi there I'm new to this so bare with me. My mum is 87 and has had alzheimers for the past 16 years. She's lived at home on her own apart from the past 3 years she accepted a care package for meds and lunch.
She recently fell and fractured her hip and was in hospital for 3 weeks and has now gone into a nursing home which specialises in dementia. It's initially a trial to see how she gets on. It has been a very emotional time, guilt, sadness and a part of acceptance of current situation. Mum ideally would have been better in a residential home where people would be able to be more sociable but as she gets up at night the local residential homes declined her. She is now in a nursing home, however pretty much all of the patients don't speak and are unable to chat. My mum likes to chat and be sociable so hadn't found this easy. She has been in there a week and she seems to be declining where she is starting to be unable to string her sentences together properly. She's very tired and at times spaced out a bit.
The social worker wants us to make a decision on a permanent basis which would involve giving up her flat. I just don't know what would be the best decision for her anf if to look for another home. To start with she just didn't seem to be ready to be there in such high end dementia, however now in a short space of time she's heading that way already.
Any advice would be grateful. ?
She recently fell and fractured her hip and was in hospital for 3 weeks and has now gone into a nursing home which specialises in dementia. It's initially a trial to see how she gets on. It has been a very emotional time, guilt, sadness and a part of acceptance of current situation. Mum ideally would have been better in a residential home where people would be able to be more sociable but as she gets up at night the local residential homes declined her. She is now in a nursing home, however pretty much all of the patients don't speak and are unable to chat. My mum likes to chat and be sociable so hadn't found this easy. She has been in there a week and she seems to be declining where she is starting to be unable to string her sentences together properly. She's very tired and at times spaced out a bit.
The social worker wants us to make a decision on a permanent basis which would involve giving up her flat. I just don't know what would be the best decision for her anf if to look for another home. To start with she just didn't seem to be ready to be there in such high end dementia, however now in a short space of time she's heading that way already.
Any advice would be grateful. ?