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What are your tips for staying independent at your own home?

Aging Well | Last Active: Mar 13 3:19pm | Replies (160)

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Marilyn, I so understand and agree with you. So sorry about your husband. I believe many have experienced the “horrors” from facilities, hospitals and or home care.

Your letter needs to be read by anyone considered a rest home. I don’t want to be negative, but here are a few more “horrors” I experienced from my husband being in rehab/rest home and hiring the wrong people as caregivers (CG).
1) found CG in room with my husband asleep giving herself a pedicure with her feet soaking in his bed bath
tubs.
2) CG meeting maintenance man in next door room.
3) Doctor never visible
4) Nurses meeting at their desks while patients waiting
5) Husband’s clothes sent to laundry but never returned. They were “lost.”
6) CG makes mistakes on prescriptions.
7) Speech therapist feeds husband wrong food he could not swallow. Later he was hospitalized for pulmonary pneumonia. Fox went to lungs. It took 16 people to revive him in ER.
8) CG sleeping in room.
9) CG smoking in restroom.
10) CG asked us for a “loan.”
These are only s few …

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All I can say is "UGH". Unfortunately this is the new normal. You also have to be careful of using people who advertise, such as A Home for Mom. I called them and they referred me to a service to supply me with caregivers at home. They were awful. When I called the owner to tell her their services were no longer required, she told me I had dementia and should see a doctor immediately. This happened over two years ago but somehow my "dementia" has magically stopped. So so sorry you had to go through this. I am amazed at how often I hear about these kinds of things from other people who had loved ones there or were there themselves.

These type of experiences are totally unacceptable. I’m not sure what state you live in, but a call to the department of health and social services would be definitely needed. In the state of Washington, they would be on top of this immediately, and a survey of the entire facility would happen.