Elderly person with limited mobility (zimmer frame to move few steps to commode) lives on their own (carers twice a day for a bit of personal care, putting rubbish out etc) and spends just about all their time in a recliner chair, snoozing or watching tv. No diagnosis of dementia, family wonders but then a perfectly normal conversation makes us think we're mistaken.
In hospital for maybe a couple of weeks with broken hip and medication complications, won't attempt to mobilise despite being told they will become bed bound....he already has a sacrum ulcer....if he goes home and becomes bedbound would he need to be 'turned' to prevent more bed sores....how would that work out with carers? Would he need visits 24/7 and is it doable at home (refuses to even talk about CH....no LPA and probably still has capacity)? He also has lymphedema and arterial ulcers, and has become quite weak since he was in hospital for 3 wks in Oct (I read in the hospital pamphlet that 10 days bed rest can 'age' muscles by 10 yrs, which is another reason for getting patients up and walking, and probably explains why he'd lost so much strength after last time, when he wouldn't walk)
Don't know when he'll be out, but forewarned is forearmed
In hospital for maybe a couple of weeks with broken hip and medication complications, won't attempt to mobilise despite being told they will become bed bound....he already has a sacrum ulcer....if he goes home and becomes bedbound would he need to be 'turned' to prevent more bed sores....how would that work out with carers? Would he need visits 24/7 and is it doable at home (refuses to even talk about CH....no LPA and probably still has capacity)? He also has lymphedema and arterial ulcers, and has become quite weak since he was in hospital for 3 wks in Oct (I read in the hospital pamphlet that 10 days bed rest can 'age' muscles by 10 yrs, which is another reason for getting patients up and walking, and probably explains why he'd lost so much strength after last time, when he wouldn't walk)
Don't know when he'll be out, but forewarned is forearmed