You can call your State Ombudsman to help. Your County Adult Protection can help. You have rights.
It would be nice to know what put you in LTC. Were you or are you doing Rehab there?
Do you have a place to go to if discharged? Has it been determined needing 24/7 care?
What happens with LTC is if they feel the resident needs 24/7 care and no one willing to do the care, by law they cannot release the person. Its called an "unsafe discharge".
If you are competent enough to convince us lay-person caregivers you can take care of yourself, then go ahead and try.
If you need an advocate, whose job it is to assess whether you can go home, and differentiate between the common cry of elders needing care: "I can take care of myself" and your rights provided (also by law), then you will want to contact the "Patient's Rights Advocate", whose number is posted at the facility (required by law). Not sure, but this could be the same person known as the NH Ombudsman, also posted as required by law.
Any chance you were admitted against your will or had a temporary illness or decline?
In my lifetime, it has made me so very happy to be helpful to someone needing to bust out of a facility.
I always told my loved one to call me if he ever needed to bust out from a place he did not want to be, against his will. He always thought that he did not have a choice to be moved from family, passing him around, using his money, until he decided to move himself to a senior living apartment-much like an assisted living luxury home he could afford. He was able to do this on his own. I provided the hand written document expressing his wishes that he carried with him from place to place, documenting that he was taken from his home against his will by step-son(s). He signed it, and was never declared incompetent. He just needed a little help.
Tell us more, Radfrog, about about how you were moved from your home to LTC. Do understand that these facilities are not prisons. If you are mentally and physically capable of caring for yourself you simply get a cab and go home after notifying your doctor of your plan. Do you have a guardian, conservator, POA who felt you were needing LTC? Appreciate more information. Wishing you the best.
You'll need to provide more background on how you became "trapped." Were you placed there by a government agency? If not, how did you come to be in this facility, especially if you feel you don't need this type of placement?
And who's paying for this placement?
You'll get much more advice if we can understand how this situation arose and why you're in a placement now.
It would be nice to know what put you in LTC. Were you or are you doing Rehab there?
Do you have a place to go to if discharged?
Has it been determined needing 24/7 care?
What happens with LTC is if they feel the resident needs 24/7 care and no one willing to do the care, by law they cannot release the person. Its called an "unsafe discharge".
If you need an advocate, whose job it is to assess whether you can go home, and differentiate between the common cry of elders needing care:
"I can take care of myself" and your rights provided (also by law),
then you will want to contact the "Patient's Rights Advocate", whose number is posted at the facility (required by law). Not sure, but this could be the same person known as the NH Ombudsman, also posted as required by law.
Any chance you were admitted against your will or had a temporary illness or decline?
In my lifetime, it has made me so very happy to be helpful to someone needing to bust out of a facility.
I always told my loved one to call me if he ever needed to bust out from a place he did not want to be, against his will. He always thought that he did not have a choice to be moved from family, passing him around, using his money, until he decided to move himself to a senior living apartment-much like an assisted living luxury home he could afford. He was able to do this on his own. I provided the hand written document expressing his wishes that he carried with him from place to place, documenting that he was taken from his home against his will by step-son(s). He signed it, and was never declared incompetent. He just needed a little help.
And who's paying for this placement?
You'll get much more advice if we can understand how this situation arose and why you're in a placement now.