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Grescha Brewer

Aug 10, 2026

25:20
Tell me why.
25:21
Well, I had been in an organization that welcomed residents from locked dementia units, and we were really proud of that, but we kind of just moved them into a bigger locked unit, so it was like it ended up being a 64-bed locked unit.
25:36
And we, when we opened our second home at Honeybee's, we welcomed a resident who had been three months specialed in the local hospital by an EN.
25:51
Imagine the cost of that.
25:53
And then because that obviously appeared tricky because of the behaviors that this resident had, was referred to a locked dementia unit in the area, and he was there for about two weeks, and was very unsettled.
26:07
And the family just were disheartened by the care that he was getting and how he wasn't thriving, and so they contacted us, and he moved in with us.
26:17
And the handover that we got from that nursing home was, like, a printout of the medication chart and a phone call saying, "Well, good luck.
29:56
But the, but the-
25:20
Tell me why.
25:21
Well, I had been in an organization that welcomed residents from locked dementia units, and we were really proud of that, but we kind of just moved them into a bigger locked unit.
25:32
So it was like, it ended up being a 64-bed locked unit.
25:36
And we, when we opened our second home at Honeybee's, we welcomed a resident who had been three months specialed in the local hospital by an EN.
25:51
Imagine the cost of that.
25:53
And then because that obviously appeared tricky because of the behaviors that this resident had, was referred to a locked dementia unit in the area, and he was there for about two weeks and was very unsettled.
26:07
And the family just were disheartened by the care that he was getting and how he wasn't thriving, and so they contacted us, and he moved in with us.
29:55
Yeah.

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