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<blockquote data-quote="skippa_10" data-source="post: 1505538" data-attributes="member: 594868">A friend&#039;s mother is getting to a point where she can&#039;t properly look after herself but she insists on staying in her own home.&nbsp; Family members want to find her an assisted living place but she is very resistant.&nbsp; She&#039;s had falls, is not taking care of her personal hygiene, gets her medications mixed up and, yet, when she was recently assessed they determined she could stay at home.&nbsp; Her family is at their wits end.&nbsp; They all have full time jobs and do what they can (taking her to medical appointments etc.) but can&#039;t keep rushing out to her at all hours of the day and night to pick her up when she falls or needs other assistance.&nbsp; They can&#039;t understand why she would want to stay in an old house that she can&#039;t take care of, where she is lonely and especially as she is often unable to even wash herself properly when they are prepared to find her a modern, purpose-built unit that has onsite medical assistance and where she would meet people and have company etc.&nbsp; Can someone shed some insight as to why she is so insistent on staying where she is when she would be better off in an aged care facility.&nbsp; If her family could understand her thinking perhaps they could accept her decision or it would help them to reason with her about the move.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skippa_10, post: 1505538, member: 594868"] A friend's mother is getting to a point where she can't properly look after herself but she insists on staying in her own home. Family members want to find her an assisted living place but she is very resistant. She's had falls, is not taking care of her personal hygiene, gets her medications mixed up and, yet, when she was recently assessed they determined she could stay at home. Her family is at their wits end. They all have full time jobs and do what they can (taking her to medical appointments etc.) but can't keep rushing out to her at all hours of the day and night to pick her up when she falls or needs other assistance. They can't understand why she would want to stay in an old house that she can't take care of, where she is lonely and especially as she is often unable to even wash herself properly when they are prepared to find her a modern, purpose-built unit that has onsite medical assistance and where she would meet people and have company etc. Can someone shed some insight as to why she is so insistent on staying where she is when she would be better off in an aged care facility. If her family could understand her thinking perhaps they could accept her decision or it would help them to reason with her about the move. [/QUOTE]

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