Does anyone have experience admitting someone to a geriatric psychiatric hospital?

In mother's case it took her threatening suicide for the psychiatrist to act. She was also having delusions and accusing the staff of her AL of this and that. The psychiatrist was a community psychiatrist who had visited mother at her AL after mother, aged 100, tried to fly 2000 miles east without proper ID. Following that attempt mother was taken to a hospital and assessed, given an antipsychotic which she then refused to take, and released having agreed to visits from the community psychiatrist and a psych nurse. Mother totally snowed the psych nurse but not the psychiatrist thankfully. The staff of the AL were documenting her "crazy" behaviour with the aim of the visiting doctor evaluating her as incompetent so we could get her the help she needed. She did go voluntarily when the psychiatrist intervened but they were prepared to take her regardless.

In the geri psych hospital she was thoroughly evaluated and diagnosed with vascular dementia. She had previously been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. She was prescribed an antipsychotic and it took abut 5 months before she agreed to take it. Then she was rapidly placed in an AL for people with mental illness.

I'm waiting on the answers to this with curiosity as we will very likely be taking my MIL to a hospital for a geri-psych eval soon.

MIL is more 'mobile' than your mom, but 1000xs harder to deal with.

Really sounds like your mom would do better with a assisted living type arrangement, whereas, my MIL belongs in the Cuckoo's Nest.

I think it is REALLY hard to get someone 'placed' b/c they're a little nutty. I look at my MIL and cannot believe she lives alone.

Anxiety, Depression, OCD, resistance to PT aren't enough to put mom somewhere better. Unless she wants to go--and it sounds like she doesn't.

Was she released back home after her fall? If not, that is kind of telling. If she falls again, you have to advocate for her healthcare.

My mother was admitted to a geriatric psychiatric hospital by a psychiatrist. What are you hoping to accomplish with your mother?