She spent over a week in the hospital and we made the decision to send her to a local rehab/nursing home. A little over 2 weeks in, we had a care plan meeting. We were informed that mom was being taken off of therapy due to 3 refusals. She was not ready to come home so we elected to have her stay until we could get her strength back. A week or so later, she got out of bed, made it to the bathroom and fell. Now her left hip was broke. She has a history of stroke and some Sundowners. So at night she was occasionally trying to get up and forgetting she needed help. They were aware but somehow the bed alarm was not on. She had a partial hip replacement and spent another week in the hospital. She went back to rehab. Fast forward to a little over 2 weeks and again, she's kicked off therapy. It's been about 3 weeks since then and she is definitely losing her strength. She will walk with help from me. I feel they aren't trying to help her gain her strength back. Please give me some suggestions to help her. I have met with nurses, administrators, etc to try to get help. Does anyone have any ideas?
Also, since she walks for you, you could ask the staff to implement short, scheduled "walking visits" with you documented as therapy time to ensure she is consistent in practising.
Finally, check her insurance coverage, as sometimes switching her to a different level of care or a different facility might restart the clock on her entitlement to therapy sessions.
My very elderly Aunt with dementia was also getting up and forgetting she couldn't walk without assistance. She fell 2 times at home in the presence of her family caregiver. Then one night she got out of bed and fell and broke her hip. In the rehab facility she continued to attempt to get out of bed.
Maybe ask for the therapy routine and help your Mom do it at home. She will just continue to get up and attempt to walk and be a high fall risk, there won't be any way to stop her (and we had an alarm on my Aunt's chair and her bed barricaded, to no avail).
Best of luck to you.
She might need LTC
Ask the therapist, does she ask Mom if she is ready for therapy or just comes in and takes her. I had a weekend therapist comebin Moms room and say "are you ready to go to therapy" Mom said "no". I told the therapist I have never asked my Mom if she wanted to do something cause the answered would have been "no". I just did it. With Dementia, she could no longer make decisions so I did it for her.