I am just wondering if anyone has experience of their loved one with Alzheimer’s proving “too much” for a care home when they are continually wandering? Due to the obsessive thought of looking for her mum which started out of the blue 12 days ago and being found wandering at night by police and strangers, we had to make the difficult decision to admit mum to a care home last Friday as “emergency respite” with a view to it becoming permanent. I explained the wandering and constant attempt to “escape” and they said they could accommodate her.
I know it is very early days but she has apparently spent each and every day wandering the corridors wanting to get out. Today when I rang I was told they are having to monitor the exit points and that she’d been in and out of other people’s rooms. It was so hard to find her a place I’m now becoming worried perhaps she might be asked to leave if they can’t manage the wandering. The psychiatrist who assessed her on Friday at home said if that happened she would be taken to a specialist hospital - but I often seem to be told one thing and then something entirely different happens so I’m a bit mistrustful of the system.
So my questions are 1) if she is asked to leave, what should I be looking for in a new place and 2) would she really be taken to a specialist hospital?
Many thanks!
I know it is very early days but she has apparently spent each and every day wandering the corridors wanting to get out. Today when I rang I was told they are having to monitor the exit points and that she’d been in and out of other people’s rooms. It was so hard to find her a place I’m now becoming worried perhaps she might be asked to leave if they can’t manage the wandering. The psychiatrist who assessed her on Friday at home said if that happened she would be taken to a specialist hospital - but I often seem to be told one thing and then something entirely different happens so I’m a bit mistrustful of the system.
So my questions are 1) if she is asked to leave, what should I be looking for in a new place and 2) would she really be taken to a specialist hospital?
Many thanks!