Kitt O’Malley

Tag: geriatric psychiatry

Flight Back Home

Jul 15, 2016

in Caregiving, Dementia, Family, Grief, Involuntary Hospitalization, Medication, Mental Illness, Stroke, Writing

Friday, July 15th Last Saturday, the day after we returned from Oregon, my mother was psychiatrically hospitalized for the third time since her stroke last November. Yesterday morning, I met with the treatment team at her psychiatric hospital. They do not think she needs long-term psychiatric placement. They believe her memory care community is the best…
Time for Geriatric Psychiatric Hospitalization

Dec 18, 2015

in Caregiving, Dementia, Family, Involuntary Hospitalization, Mental Illness, Stroke

Tuesday I took my mother from her stroke rehab to the hospital for a swallow test. When we returned to her stroke rehab afterwards, she refused to get out of my car. She went so far as to throw my car into park when I was driving toward the entrance. I warned her that her…