A professional caregiver can provide medication reminders to ensure that seniors take their meds exactly as prescribed. More information on medication reminder services and other home care services can be found here: https://cantatahomeservices.org/old-services/hourly-home-care/
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For those whose parents are semi willing to have help, you can talk to the MD and he can prescribe a home health nurse to come give daily medication management. We are lucky enough that my parents have medicare and blue cross and between the two they pay for the nurse who comes twice a day to take care of my dad's meds, injections, etc. I have four children of my own and my mom gets a bit confused, so we had to do something.
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Sometime I feel like a broken record- buy and automatic medication dispenser from the Alzheimer's Store or from an emergency response company. You will need to fill it up once a week or everyother week and it will only despense meds at pre set times.
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Has she had a psychiatric evaluation, or assesment? Sounds like she needs to be under psychiatric care? As for the drug addiction, that is tricky as an individual who does not first recognize that he or she has a problem and wishes to undergo rehab for chemical dependency has made a hard and fast choice that no one else is able to make for that person. If you do know the names of any of her doctors, you may want to notify them of your suspicions? Also, if you know the name of the pharmacy(ies) she uses, try talking to a pharmacist to report your suspicions? An ethical pharmacist will contact the doctor's office to alert the doctor of any concerns and ethical doctors will take it from there. It may take multiple times of doing this once she seeks treatment from a new doctor and/or if she decides to rotate pharmacies. The next time she has to be taken to the hospital request inpatient psychiatric observation and full assessment of your Mom. As to speak with a psych social worker to discuss what you may be able to do in the situation. The situation you are in is very difficult, to say the least, but I know you already know that. Keep sharing. There are a lot of caregivers on this site who really do care. Good luck. If nothing else works, the next time she is admitted to the hospital, let them know that you are not available to care for her round-the-clock and your observation is that she poses a direct threat to herself.
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My Mother is 75 years old and has been taking 1mgm of Zanax and Hydrocodone since 1987. She is married but swears to her Dr that he is trying to kill her with her own drugs. I moved 150 miles to try and help her, she is out of control. She has shot her gun over my house which was on their property. She calls the police on my step father every other day. He is an alcholic, and is in bad condition. She wanted my husband and I to move closer to her Dr. she stayed for 2 weeks and went back. I might add that she has been known to see 3 Doctors at a time. All giving her zanax and hydrocodone and more. Of course, they don't know she is seeing other Doctors. She has been dismissed from 12 doctors in the last year. She is too much for them to deal with. She has been to two clinic's this year to try and get her off the drugs. She comes back with more than she had when she went in. She was release 4 days ago from a drug rehab program I came home found her on the floor I could tell she had taken way to much medicine. In 3 days she had taken 45 zanax's plus other meds. I called the ambulance where she spent the day in ICU. She's says everyone is stealing from her and trying to kill her. I am at the end of my rope. I have to work and I can not spend every moment watching her. She refuses to let me give her medicine and I am out of town a lot. We do not have the money for a private nurse. She has had home health care but they all quit her. They say I can not put her in a nursing home with her consent. What do I do. I cannot go through this any longer.
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