Help me understand possible options for my ILs

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Anonymous wrote:The 'belts tying them in' are for their own safety. It prevents them from slipping out of their chairs or flopping over.

I understand that, and I think it is fine personally, but I was just under the impression that it still wasn't allowed.

I'm surprised they used belts, too. At the rehabs and memory care places I have experience with they don't allow anything that a patient can't remove themselves. That means no mittens, seatbelts on wheel chairs, bedrails, chemical restraints like Haldol, etc. Even if you request bedrails to keep someone from rolling out of bed, they won't allow them because they "restrain."

Yes, this exactly!
-pp you quoted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 'belts tying them in' are for their own safety. It prevents them from slipping out of their chairs or flopping over.

I understand that, and I think it is fine personally, but I was just under the impression that it still wasn't allowed.

I'm surprised they used belts, too. At the rehabs and memory care places I have experience with they don't allow anything that a patient can't remove themselves. That means no mittens, seatbelts on wheel chairs, bedrails, chemical restraints like Haldol, etc. Even if you request bedrails to keep someone from rolling out of bed, they won't allow them because they "restrain."

My father just had mittens to keep him from pulling out his ivs and feeding tube in the hospital. He HATED them. They did say they could not restrain him to his bed even though he was a fall risk. His bed was just very low to the ground. Honestly, the only thing left was sedating him which lead to bedsores. I think the only option was 1:1 24 hour care in his case...which no hospital or care center provides.