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Mar. 22nd, 2012 09:13 amMore news on my grandfather-- He does not have a broken wrist, just the pelvis and the ribs. The pelvis fracture isn't too awful. Nothing was displaced, so there's no need for surgery. He should be able to move around if he uses a walker. The ribs are giving him quite a bit of pain.
The bad news is that there's no rehab center locally that will take him. None of them are equipped to deal with a patient with dementia. The hospital wants him out, so they're sending him home because there's nowhere else for him to go. They're labeling it 'against advice.' Mom's going to see if he can adapt and learn to use the walker (he refused physical therapy. He also refused to eat until Mom showed up and talked him into it). There'll be a visiting nurse of some sort coming by to try to persuade him to do physical therapy and to make sure he's not making himself worse. Though what the nurse can do if he is, I don't know.
I don't know if this is a stopgap before moving him to a nursing home. That home would pretty much have to be either in Baton Rouge, where my mother lives, or some place in Michigan, where my uncles live. Right now he's in the Florida Keys. Moving Grandpa has got to be a daunting task. I mean, in a strange place, you can't even trust him to visit a bathroom alone, and I can't imagine him dealing well with TSA screening.
The bad news is that there's no rehab center locally that will take him. None of them are equipped to deal with a patient with dementia. The hospital wants him out, so they're sending him home because there's nowhere else for him to go. They're labeling it 'against advice.' Mom's going to see if he can adapt and learn to use the walker (he refused physical therapy. He also refused to eat until Mom showed up and talked him into it). There'll be a visiting nurse of some sort coming by to try to persuade him to do physical therapy and to make sure he's not making himself worse. Though what the nurse can do if he is, I don't know.
I don't know if this is a stopgap before moving him to a nursing home. That home would pretty much have to be either in Baton Rouge, where my mother lives, or some place in Michigan, where my uncles live. Right now he's in the Florida Keys. Moving Grandpa has got to be a daunting task. I mean, in a strange place, you can't even trust him to visit a bathroom alone, and I can't imagine him dealing well with TSA screening.
