My Mom has advanced vascular dementia and is a memory care facility. She is confined to a wheelchair but can use her legs to get around. She sees to have a need to move the chair a lot roaming the hallway and common area over and over. In April she crashed the chair into a door jam and fell against the doorway resulting in a big lump on her head and broken nose. Yesterday she had a similar accident resulting in a baseball sized bump on the forehead and lots of bruising. The emergency room doctor said Washington state prohibits the use of a seat belt. Does anyone know of this is true? Mom only weighs 89 pounds.
Would like to prevent any more such accidents but I don't want to take away her ability to move either. Are there any other steps we can take to prevent these accidents?
There are various kinds of wheelchair cushions that might help in this situation. OT are usually the folks who know about adaptive gadgets, so contact the therapy department and get them working on this problem.
She needs to be in a facility that uses the large dining room as. Common room all day long. Large flat screen, like 60", on wall. Then wheeled to the table with a bird'seye view of the screen and wheelchair wheels LOCKED.
Move her if they can't accommodate that need. Sorry, no more moving on her own.
Does he have a tilt in place wheelchair Irishgram? That coupled with freqflyer's pillow idea and asking that he be kept by the nurses station might help.
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