Mixed Blessings

In the world of Dementia, the patient longs for home - often times asking repeatedly to go home. They associate home with comfort and memories. Somewhere when they were once in control. It is wanting to return to that feeling. Being a woman of impulse, she acts on this feeling. Often.

What is a humorous quality of stubborness soon becomes a liability. My mother continues to stay on the secure doors and sound the alarm. She is cognitive enough to understand that if she leans on the doors for 15 seconds, they will open. She also now has a possee that will follow her out the door. It is starting to take more manpower to redirect her from the doors, and within minutes she will return because she cannot remember that this is wrong. It has become frustrating for everyone involved.

As you can see, this situation is no longer a feasible. She has been there for all of 45 days. Colonial Manor has asked that she be moved as their secure unit is not all that secure.

The problem becomes that she continues to be denied as nursing homes do not want to accept some one who will try to escape at every given turn. Colonial Manor is helping me to find a new facility but it continues to get harder and harder with each day.

But good news came today. She now is officially on Medicaid. This will alleviate all medical bills and keeping her safe in a nursing facility. I have been trying to get her on Medicaid for the past year - it has been a grueling process of bureacratic tape, but we are finally here. At 60 years old, there is not alot out there in the way of financial help.

Now we just have to find a new home. Please keep us in your prayers and we go through this grueling process. Will keep you updated on the latest news!