Can you ask her doctor to order home health for her? My mother did home health a few times. She improved after doing the occupational and physical therapy.
After a hospital stay she did rehab in a facility. She made significant progress after participating in a rehabilitation program.
I can only guess that while your mother was in the hospital with the latest UTI that she was left just lying in the bed which of course weakens her. Plus the fact that she's 83 and has dementia doesn't help matters either. Each time my late husband would be in the hospital after his dementia diagnosis he would return home much weaker than before and eventually he did become completely bedridden where he remained the last 22 months of his life. I too don't believe that the UTI and not walking are related at all, but purely the next stage in her dementia journey. You can see if her doctor will order a physical therapist to come to the house to try and see if she will be able to walk again, but eventually you will just have to accept that this is all part of the horrible disease of dementia. I wish you and your mother well.
One has nothing to do with another. A uti can weaken an elder to where walking may require a bit of rehab, if at all possible with Alzheimer's in place. Or perhaps a bit of in home physical therapy would help build up the patients strength. It's important to note, however, that if your mom has been declining lately with her mobility due to other criteria, she may need a wheelchair now. That happened w my mother after a bout of pneumonia hospitalized her for a week when her dementia was already declining, along with the neuropathy in her feet. She never recovered enough to walk again, and had to go into a wheelchair fulltime from that point forward. But the neuropathy played a big part in that decision. Which is why I ask what other mobility issues your mom may have?
After a hospital stay she did rehab in a facility. She made significant progress after participating in a rehabilitation program.
Each time my late husband would be in the hospital after his dementia diagnosis he would return home much weaker than before and eventually he did become completely bedridden where he remained the last 22 months of his life.
I too don't believe that the UTI and not walking are related at all, but purely the next stage in her dementia journey. You can see if her doctor will order a physical therapist to come to the house to try and see if she will be able to walk again, but eventually you will just have to accept that this is all part of the horrible disease of dementia.
I wish you and your mother well.