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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father is currently at a SNF in MoCo. We are taking shifts to be there with him from 8a-8p b/c the staff/nurses aren't looking after him (and we understand they have other patients). He needs constant reminders of where he is and to keep drinking water, etc. (he has delirium post-hip replacement) and very weak. He only gets 5 min of therapy a day for his hip, legs, and general strength.  He isn't sleeping well there and frankly, the only care he is getting is the daily baths, changing (of which sometimes takes an hour before they come and change his diaper -- again, understand they are short staff, but [b]also sad to see my dad sit in it for that long[/b]), the 5 min of PT, and medication.  [b]All of which my husband and I can do[/b] (in addition to having PT come to help do exercises, that we would also work with him in doing). I am able to take leave from work to care for him and as a family we feel he'd recover better being at our home. Are we crazy in trying this? [/quote]

I don't understand how these two statements fit together.

All of what you say you can do at home, you can do in the SNF. If you want to do longer stretches of PT with him than is offered, you can do that while he in in their chair or bed, rather than yours. If you think you can change his undergarments faster, you can do that while he is there. And you have the benefit that if this is a new baseline for him, or if you get sick or have another emergency, he is safer there than he would be at your home alone. (If your plan was to pay someone to be a sitter in those cases, you can pay them to come to the SNF, too.) And there is the critical component of being able to transfer if needed.

Of course, he may not be as cooperative with your cares as you think. If not, it's likely that would have been as much a problem at your home, too.[/quote]

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