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The family have the dilemma of would moving my aunt of 89 years who has dementia and unable to weight bear at all to a nursing home nearer to us.
Contractures developed in her knees while at the nursing home, so unable weight bear.
We live over 200 miles away and have poor communication with nursing home at the ward level at present, i have involved sociol services, but this has not helped so far.
My aunt has been a resident for just over a year in her first care home.
Before this she was living at home independently and subsequent to falls in early 2021 discharged from NHS to this nursing home.
There appears to have been step declines in her mental ability on each of the two falls and UTI ... and major step decline on transfer from the NHS to the nursing home, "transfer trauma".
More upsetting than the confusion is the verbal distress my aunt often displays about 50% of the time.
My aunt was very quite person before the decline, but now often talks constantly if more awake and 50% of this time in a distressed manner.
My aunts talking can upset other residents a bit.
Triggers for the distress talking seem to be, so she trying to get help
Dirty pad very distressed
Wanting to go home
Currently to help as intervention i am trying to arrange for a paid for visitor.
iain
The family have the dilemma of would moving my aunt of 89 years who has dementia and unable to weight bear at all to a nursing home nearer to us.
Contractures developed in her knees while at the nursing home, so unable weight bear.
We live over 200 miles away and have poor communication with nursing home at the ward level at present, i have involved sociol services, but this has not helped so far.
My aunt has been a resident for just over a year in her first care home.
Before this she was living at home independently and subsequent to falls in early 2021 discharged from NHS to this nursing home.
There appears to have been step declines in her mental ability on each of the two falls and UTI ... and major step decline on transfer from the NHS to the nursing home, "transfer trauma".
More upsetting than the confusion is the verbal distress my aunt often displays about 50% of the time.
My aunt was very quite person before the decline, but now often talks constantly if more awake and 50% of this time in a distressed manner.
My aunts talking can upset other residents a bit.
Triggers for the distress talking seem to be, so she trying to get help
Dirty pad very distressed
Wanting to go home
Currently to help as intervention i am trying to arrange for a paid for visitor.
iain