I'd like to add 2 comments, thinking back to my own mother who, prior to her fall, had been living at home with a live-in carer and had dementia.
Firstly, she needed either a bathroom on the ground floor or to essentially 'live' upstairs.
Secondly, I was told by the manager of the care home which she ended up going to that every change of environment/routine for a person with dementia is an irreversible step in the worsening of the condition - for that reason, the idea of a brief stay in a care home prior to possibly returning home may not be in er best interests.
I feel for you, as we agonised long and hard about this, and it caused a major falling-out between we siblngs, which resulted in a case-management meeting in the hospital attended by an independent person who talked to my mother to try to establish what her understanding of 'home' was.
In the end, she was discharged to the care home directly, and seemed much more cheerful when there, in part, I suspect, because she had people 'looking after' her.
Army horses loose on London streets
Last weekend, in Rutland, the first statue in Britain of the late Elizabeth II was unveiled.