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Originally Posted by shrandell
My friend Maureen’s Husband is temporarily being cared for in hospital as he had an internal infection. However his Alzheimer’s has begun to make him combative. He cannot stay in hospital. Due to this, my friend Maureen (quite senior and frail) has been unable to find a facility willing to take her husband.
I’d appreciate any information you are willing to share, a facility known to take such patients, or a live in, or daily type care giver / aide? I’ll pass the information along. Alzheimer’s is such a cruel and devastating disease.
Thank you, Sandra
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Your neighbor is lucky to have you with the heart to help.
From your post, you do not have any power to make any decisions. If, it were me, I would ask if there is any family and then try contacting them
Sadly, we went through this with my grandmother. My mother refused to put her into a home so she lived with us for several years before my mother finally resorted to putting her in a home. The strain on mother drove her into a breakdown. FAMILY? I remember my aunt bitching that my mother fixed up a room in her home for my grandmother at my grandmother's expense. We lost the great room where we used to have our ping pong table, dart board, TV etc. My sisters High School graduation. I still remember my mother crying on the phone to get either her brother or her sister to stay with THEIR MOTHER for a few hours so she could go to my sister's graduation. In the end, both were their to grab whatever was left from the estate when
my grandmother passed.
Your neighbor is not the first. I would call the hospital or perhaps better stop over. The hospital surely has a sociologist perhaps the title is patient advocate who can help you and your neighbor. You might also talk to an atty.
I DON'T KNOW BUTI'm no certain your neighbor has to pick him up from the hospital. That action, crude as it is, will force the hospital to help.