EMI Unit
Sorry, I don't know what one is. Can someone explain? Mum was diagnosed with Dementia in July, her main problem has been wandered out at night, but apparently once settled in the Care Home this hasn't occurred. Indeed, she doesn;t know where the front door is, and wouldn't know where to go if she got out of it. She still wakes early, sometimes 3 or 4 a.m. but the night staff just tell her she is too early and she goes back to bed.
When we were looking for a Care Home, we were advised that she didn't need a specialist dementia unit, just a general home, but some refused us because of her wandering. But she doesn't wander any more now that she is in a routine. So I wonder if we have gone for the wrong level of care for her at the moment. Most of the residents in her home are far worse that she is. Most of the time she is bright and lucid. Yes, she sometimes talks rubbish, doesn't know what day it is, thinks people have visited when they haven't (and vice versa), but in other respects she is normal. I just feel there aren't enough "normal" people in her current home, so I'd appreciate knowing what an EMI is and how it differs from anything else.
I have been proud to have her as my mum during these last 3 months in hospital and care home. All the staff tell me she is a delightful lady, very compliant, easy to look after. I've never had much respect for my mum before, but suddenly she has gone up in my estimation, and suddenly I want to make the rest of her life as happy as it can be, whatever it takes. That might sound as though I didn't want that before, I always did, but suddenly I am more determined than I was.
Any advice welcomed.
Margaret