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You have been given some wonderful advice. If well trained staff cannot help her it is obvious you cannot either. She is an unsafe discharge. Get her medicated and refuse to allow her to be discharged anywhere except a facility. It took my mom months in a memory care facility before she settled down enough to enjoy life more. The meds were amazing at reducing unwanted behaviors. The first hospital sent her home and said she would be fine with someone checking in on her. Nope, they were absolutely wrong. The second hospital thankfully saw that she was an unsafe discharge and we got her placed in memory care. Someone in mental health told me it can take many such hospital trips before someone there listens and agrees the patient is an unsafe discharge. Start looking for facilities now. Do not move in with your mother or allow her to be discharged to a home. You are no more capable of dealing with a violent dementia patient that you are of taking out your own appendix. It's OK to realize and accept that.
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