I was searching for information to help me understand and deal with all my mom is going through. Seems several of you have similar situations to mine. My mom broke her hip about 2 months ago and went to a nursing home for rehab. Things have gotten very hard to deal with since then. She [...]

I’ve read everyone’s entries, and all seem quite different. Looking for a site that can give specifics on what to look for. Nursing home says probably sundowners, and was diagnosed w/demntia. At around 4:00 every day now she begins to go to the bathroom every 1/2 hr, start ordering us to shut the blinds, turn [...]

I, too…was put in this situation. My Father when dying of cancer asked me to care for my Mother…being a R.N….I decided this would be the course of my life. It is a big sacrifice but I have worked in nursing homes where I walked into a room and an elderly patient had [...]