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[quote=Anonymous]Facilities like Sunrise are businesses with aggressive marketing. They will absolutely accept your loved one with mild dementia to fill a spot, then kick them out when they become too much. Unfortunately, if you have a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer's you have no way of knowing how the disease progression will go. It is different for everyone. Your loved one could have lived there for years, then have challenging behaviors and then be kicked out.

FWIW I have a relative in memory care. She has hit other residents and been violent before. They have a geripsych on staff who worked to adjust her medications to help with this. They also moved her so she wasn't around a particular resident who she butt heads with. There were many other challenging behaviors that have happened in the course of her illness. If you hire a geriatric care manager, it can save you time and money because they will help you find the right facility.

Often, facilities like Sunrise will show families how great the food is and how many activities are offered. But you really need to ask hard questions like "have you ever kicked out residents with dementia?" "what happens if my loved one is violent/agitated/wanders" "do you have a geriatric psychiatrist who visits" "what is the staff ratio in the evenings when sundowning occurs" "what did your most challenging resident do and how did you handle it?" etc.

Also, in memory care the facility is locked. Residents wander all over the place. They will go in each other's rooms. They have no sense of time and place. Obviously this would not be okay in a normal nursing home. That's why they need to be in memory care specifically.  [/quote]

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