[Serious]Redditors who made the decision to have a family member rehomed to a nursing home, how did you manage it??

Is “rehomed” a fancy way of saying “grandma it’s time to move into an [independent or assisted] living facility, you suck at living on your own”? Because that’s pretty much how we did it.

This is my friends story, not mine: My friends grandma was getting up there in age. My friends parents were very busy people and didn’t have time to take Care of her, so she was admitted to a nursing home. After what my friend told me she hated it there, and every time she spoke to any of her family she would lie about getting better, at last they took her home because she had straight up tried to escape the place. But she only Got worse, and then (i dont know what happened exactly, but i Think she Got some kind of illness) she started hallucinating, she started talking to what seemed to just talk to nobody about anything, she’d just stand there, in the middle of a room and talk like she was talking to someone. At last my friends parents decided to take her back to the nursing home, where she died 6 months later (sorry if the story seems a little flimsy, remember, this is just me telling what my friend told me)

We had them living with us, but scheduled a "respite" weekend at the retirement home. We went for a tour and when we got home, they started packing and told us that they were moving there - it's nice and quiet there (our house can be a bit chaotic).

The retirement home, thankfully, was able to accommodate, and the move happened that week.

I will admit that our situation was incredibly lucky, most seniors fight a move like that.

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