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Thank you all for being very supportive. I'm thinking of placing my mother in a nursing facility, however, I'm only at the research stage and haven't asked a facility director any questions as of yet. When my mother was being discharged from a hospital last year, I was asked by the social worker if I wanted her to go to rehab for recovery. I said yes and thought it would be beneficial for her. However, when the social worker asked my mother if she wanted to go, she refused. If I am her POA and if I had insisted she go would it make any difference whether or not her request was not to go? Would the same thing happen if I placed her in a nursing home? Thank you for your knowledge and support.

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As long as your mother is competent, she will be allowed to make the decision about where to reside. If she is determined to not be competent, but expresses opposition to being in a facility, you might need to get a guardianship to have her held in the facility.
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No she needs to be discharged & family member has to approve & work w Social Worker .It just doesn’t work like...well I don’t like it here so I’m going home....if she has nobody home to be her caregiver...of course not
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The answer here is that rehab is for rehabilitation. It takes tremendous support and it takes cooperation and a willingness to work hard to get well. Without the agreement of the elder or some other indication they will participate in PT and OT then rehab will not be the place for them, and will appropriately refuse to have them. Skilled nursing may work; and often PT is offered but not insisted upon. If your mother has severe dementia then your POA for health care will matter a great deal. However, if she still has enough will to participate or not, and to say she will or will not, your POA won't matter in this instance. So yes, she can refuse rehab if she has no intention of working toward rehabilitation. If she has dementia and is unsafe at home alone then she cannot refuse memory care or some other that you feel she must be in for HER OWN SAFETY. Remember you are acting FOR her best interests, and acting as she would have when in sound mind, and acting in her stead when she is unable to act.
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