He is going into other people's room and shaking them and telling them that they are in his bed. Also roams all night. He walked in the bathroom where a caregiver was helping another resident with his pants unzipped. They have told me before that he roams around with his pants almost down In the dining room. I can’t take him back home with me. If the AL can’t deal with him can he be put in a nursing home? They wouldn’t accept him when I tried a few months ago because he could walk, eat and go to the bathroom. They didn’t care that he had lost his mind.
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Roamed all night when he lived with me. Also, he would walk in my room anytime he wanted until I learned to lock the door. I agree that he probably needs memory care but he can’t afford it.
We are barely affording AL. He has been doing this for months to
me. I can’t keep him. I thought he would be able to go to a nursing home several months ago and they turned him down
because they said he could not medically qualify. I don’t know
how bad your mind has to get to qualify for Medicaid to pay for
a nursing home, but he is totally incapable of taking care of himself
at all. I agree that if he is disrupting other residence then he would have to go. They are having a psychologist talk with him tomorrow and make a report so the doctor can either put him on some other
medicine or they may send him to a geriatric psyche facility to see if they can help him. I’m praying we can find a answer!
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Of course be sure to have them check him for a urinary tract infection if this behavior is new.
Also ask for a geriatric psychiatrist to see if his meds need adjusting.