| Re: medicine to stop wandering?
Dear Ceedee, it sounds like you really have your hands full.
As far as I know the only medicines that stop night wandering are ordinary sleeping pills, and you can't keep a person sedated all day long. He really needs to be in a place with locks inside the doors, high up where they are not noticed or reachable by the patients. I can see why an ordinary day care center for adults would not be able to deal with someone who keeps leaving.
Maybe it is time for you to consider a nursing home.
My Mom is in stage 6 and I can't imagine how in the world I could still have her at home as I did for 5 years. She gets wonderful care there, and someone is watching her every minute, which you cannot do at home. You are only one person, but they have 3 shifts on the nursing staff. (and they get sick days off!)
At this nursing home people can go out into an inner courtyard, the doors to that are open, But the doors to the outside world are only accessible with a code you have to punch into a monitor. If a patient should manage to 'sneak' out by following an employee or a visitor, an alarm goes off because every patient has a device on them.
Maybe you want to reconsider your options
Good luck and I hope you are over the tummy bug by now.
love,
Martha
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