My elderly father collapsed at home in March this year and spent nearly 4 months in hospital and a rehabilitation unit. During this time he had to deal with Sepsis, UTIs and COVID-19 and a Grade 4 pressure sore. He has now been diagnosed with Dementia and has a urinary catheter attached 24/7 due to an open sacral wound.
We are in a trial period of personally caring for him at home, however, more or less every morning, we are woken to him calling out or us coming down to find him laying on the floor stark naked with the sheets, duvet and his PJs soaked with urine. He constantly plays with the connection, straps, bags etc and we know for a fact that he pulls at the connector. He is insistent that it has become disconnected on its own, despite us telling him constantly that we can see what he is doing when we are asleep. He also has a habit of removing his bottoms and then getting them caught up in the pipework/bag.
The constant wetting of the bed is significantly increasing the risk of his wound becoming reinfected and, allied to other concerns over risk of falls, we are needing to consider how his care needs are going to be best maintained going forward, i.e. specialist care at home vs nursing home.
Can any other forum members provide their thoughts or experiences on how they get their loved ones to stop playing with their catheters?
We are in a trial period of personally caring for him at home, however, more or less every morning, we are woken to him calling out or us coming down to find him laying on the floor stark naked with the sheets, duvet and his PJs soaked with urine. He constantly plays with the connection, straps, bags etc and we know for a fact that he pulls at the connector. He is insistent that it has become disconnected on its own, despite us telling him constantly that we can see what he is doing when we are asleep. He also has a habit of removing his bottoms and then getting them caught up in the pipework/bag.
The constant wetting of the bed is significantly increasing the risk of his wound becoming reinfected and, allied to other concerns over risk of falls, we are needing to consider how his care needs are going to be best maintained going forward, i.e. specialist care at home vs nursing home.
Can any other forum members provide their thoughts or experiences on how they get their loved ones to stop playing with their catheters?