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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds to me like memory care, if they can compel you to get a sitter, is almost redundant. That it’s better to get the sitter and other support staff, and have the patient home as long as possible. What is the next step after memory care, aside from hospice? Is there anything “all inclusive” for fall-prone dementia patients?[/quote]

No. Memory care plus sitters plus medication to make them malleable/easier to care for despite the side effects it caused her: in our case still not enough.

I posted upthread about how we’re going through this with MIL. We have already done meds. Unfortunately they make her even more confused and upset and fall-prone. In our case after the last fall the memory care refused to take her back (she had lived in the community for years AND had a private sitter additionally) so she had to go to the only rehab place that would take her. Conditions there were horrible, she declined rapidly, lost significant  weight (she was thin before), and finally the memory care said they would take her back as a hospice patient (ie, heavily medicated and dying). It has been a very rough last chapter of her life and sad.

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