Can AL facility force someone to be wheelchair bound because they are a fall risk?

[Anonymous]

If they aren’t letting the aide walk with your dad and only PT or OT it sounds like he is an extremely high fall risk or needs a lot of assistance. He is using a hoyer lift because 2 people cannot safely transfer him. It’s unsafe for staff to assist a patient that needs that much help. So many healthcare workings get injuries from this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, they can set whatever guidelines they wish; it’s all about what’s in the original contract and if they don’t feel that they can safely care for your dad, they are within their rights to ask him to leave. It’s possible that another facility will handle things differently.

This may not be the case with Medicare, Medicaid or even insurance paid facility.

[Anonymous]

Does someone have time to constantly be going to the ER because if a patient in memory care falls they are such poor historians they can’t remember so just in case the facility calls an ambulance? Imagine if they didnt and hours later it was found the person actually was injured or appears with black eyes or bruises and no one knows what happened

[Anonymous]

OP here back from my trip . We are planning to move him different memory care facility. We found another facility that seems much better equipped to manage vascular dementia and all of the complications that come with it.

Further affirming out decision, when I visited my dad I found the one-on-one aide fast asleep with the door closed while my Dad just hung out in his wheel chair. .I was furious and when I notified her supervisor, all I got back was “I’ll look into it.”

Plus, this reclining wheelchair does not really go into a fully upright firm position so they have been having him eat in a somewhat reclining position, which is in clear violation of his care plan and safe eating plan.


And, when the PT/OT people came, they take my dad walking in the hall and he does fine. But they still won’t allow the one one one aides to walk with him - I think because they are just incompetent and untrained.

This is a relatively expensive facility overall and the move will actually save a lot of money, although it was not money that motivated the change.

And after we move him I think I will report this facility to the state because I do think this use of a reclining wheelchair is an unlawful restraint.

[Anonymous]

The walking is a liability and staffing issue. You are saying he needs someone right there and they don’t have the staff. You should regularly drop in unannounced. Good plan to move him but you need to be realistic toonn

[Anonymous]

It’s like daycare, they can’t cater to the needs of each child and they won’t. He needs personal care or he stays the way he is or maybe another memory care. But arguing with the existing facility will not change anything.