My mom was sent to a psychiatric hospital geriatric and she called and wants to leave. She had not been officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s as we cannot get her in with a specialist until July. She has gotten in the violent stage and has hit me and my husband. I went to a magistrate to try and get help for her now she is there.
I am scared that maybe this is not the right place for her but I am planning to talk to the doctor who will be treating her tomorrow.
sh called me tonight and said she was scared and wanted to leave. Should I just go and get her and bring her home? Will I have a hard time having her released AMA? Can anytime give me advice? Please help
The admission led to a diagnosis, a treatment plan & medications that did work (after some trialling).
It won't be easy, but you are on this path now. Keep breathing. Keep asking questions if it helps.
Your mom has nothing to be scared of, she's using that to get you to intervene.
If she was put in a psych hospital for geriatric patients, she needs it. They don't do that type of admission lightly. Work with them and not against them in getting your mom the care and medication she needs.
Know that this will be hard and you will need to not let your emotions take control.
In all honesty your mother is in exactly the right place now to get a firm diagnosis and suggestions for treatment and management.
Of course she doesn't want to be there, but at this point this isn't about her choices, because she's not currently capable of MAKING choices for herself; it is about what is best for her. You will have simply to tell your mother that she is there for diagnosis and to speak with the doctors, and when they release her you will be there; meanwhile that you will visit her later in the day (or whenever you will visit her).
She has, for whatever reason, landed in just the right place. Good luck and I hope you'll update us; meanwhile provide to these diagnosing doctors as much information as you are able. Best of luck to you.
Bringing her back into her home will destroy the progress you've made so far. And then things will get worse.
You've absolutely done the right thing! Hang in there and follow her doctors' advice. Mom is not in the right state of mind to make her own decisions now.