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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,

Both my parents were experiencing cognitive issues, but my dad had an Alzheimers diagnosis. At first we had some intermittent caregivers and they were in their home but we had to move them to an apartment because the house was too much.  They did not understand or want to move.

Then we had round the clock in-home care but when they can't physically move the person (just to sit up, get up on toilet, help bath, etc.) and the equipment is too big or expensive to have (also my mom is OCD and refused to have the equipment in the apartment) then they need to be in a nursing home type of facility which does have that equipment.  You almost have no choice.  A 25 year old female caregiving simply cannot physically move a 200 pound man with alzheimers without special equipment.

As previous posters have said, the best time to transition is after a hospital stay.  My parents were in a continuum of care type of place, so after the hospital my dad went to the skilled nursing floor (not necessarily memory patients), got rehabbed there a bit and then never went back to the apartment.  He went into the memory care unit. He died there about a year later.

You may have to lie to your parents, you may have to manipulate them into going to a care facility, unless you have had many previous clear-eyed and direct conversations about their care.  It isn't pretty and it's not fun.  [/quote]

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