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The Assisted Living facility she is at now provides assistance with her bathing, dressing, and even helping her in the bathroom. They also help her into and out of bed. Many residents there are wheeled by staff to the dining room. My cousin is able to wheel herself around the facility, even with one hand in a brace. She can feed herself easily and use the bathroom on her own, though she needs help getting in and out of the wheelchair.
I'm just wondering what services a Dementia Unit would offer that my cousin is not already getting where she is now.
Most everyone in the ALF is in a wheel chair and has substantial dementia to the point they do not really communicate that I have seen. They may say hello, but they are not able to answer any question such as how they are doing or what they are having for lunch. I anticipate that is how my cousin will be soon at the rate she is declining.
Residents got to choose their food items from maybe three different choices; kinds of juice, scrambled eggs or omelet or oatmeal, sausage or bacon, coffee, tea. Those who couldn't mark their little menu's got help from staff. Couldn't read? They'd voice all the choices and mark the menu for them.
They had six or eight little activities every day in the dining room. Exercise, bingo, coloring, puzzles, hot potato . . . things to keep them occupied supervised by staff.
They had lively entertainment on the floor at least once a week. There were three levels of care in the nursing home; if one of the other floors was having entertainment, they'd take all the memory care patients to watch. They might have a magician, an impersonator, a singer, dancers, a travelogue . . .
Once a week or more, they'd bring in friendly dogs to interact with patients. Staff was always speaking to the patients, putting a friendly hand on their shoulder, asking them how they were feeling . . .
Every morning when patients got dressed, their aid wrote down what they were wearing. Every hour or two, they did a rounds check to make sure all patients were accounted for. While I was touring the floor, there was an overhead announcement that Anna Marie had "eloped". "She's wearing green slacks and a pink print sweater." She was immediately located and escorted from someone else's room where she'd fallen asleep on their bed. ;)
They all wore wrist alarms that would sound to holy heaven if someone DID make their way down the elevator (maybe a visitor let them share the ride) and passed within x-number of feet of any exit. The elevator was located within that alarm distance; so, if someone hitched a ride, their wrist alarm would activate a loud alarm alerting staff. The bustling nurse's station was located just across from the elevator and 20 feet from the front doors.
I cannot give my mom the care at HOME that she would get at the nursing home. And that's the absolute truth.