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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 [...]

Kitt O'Malley2016-07-15T15:18:21-07:00July 15th, 2016|Categories: Caregiving, Dementia, Family, Grief, Involuntary Hospitalization, Medication, Mental Illness, Stroke, Writing|Tags: Anxiety, geriatric psychiatry, Travel, vascular dementia|27 Comments

Time for Geriatric Psychiatric Hospitalization

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 [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-12-18T14:32:08-08:00December 18th, 2015|Categories: Caregiving, Dementia, Family, Involuntary Hospitalization, Mental Illness, Stroke|Tags: aging, geriatric psychiatry, psychiatric hospitalization, Sandwich Generation, urinary tract infection, uti|63 Comments