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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 20, 2017, 06:20:55 pm ---No, nobody called. The patients have so many problems all the time, and the nurses just don't call you unless they are at death's door. :'(
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What about if they fall?
I had a coworker whose mother was in a home. Every time she fell, my coworker got a phone call.
I presume that protected the home from charges of abuse, but, still, that seems a wise policy to me.
CellarDweller:
my mom would get a call if my grandmother fell. After two falls, she was given a weird contraption to wheel around in, it looked to be made out of pvc pipes.
Gram was able to sit in in, and because it was pvc, it was very light, so she was able to scoot around in it using her feet.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 21, 2017, 06:16:47 pm --- my mom would get a call if my grandmother fell. After two falls, she was given a weird contraption to wheel around in, it looked to be made out of pvc pipes.
Gram was able to sit in in, and because it was pvc, it was very light, so she was able to scoot around in it using her feet.
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A "walker" for adults.
(Do they still have them for kids?)
CellarDweller:
I'm sure they do!
serious crayons:
I'm not sure whether to post this here or the "In the New Yorker" thread, but I'm finishing NYer writer/surgeon Atul Guwande's Being Mortal, and it's excellent, especially good for caregivers.
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