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[quote=Anonymous]My mom fell in January and broke a vertebra and a clavicle. She was in the ER three days before they could get her a rehab bed covered by insurance and it took another week after that before she complained to the right people about her back pain and got that xrayed and immediately in for surgery because it needed to be pinned. A couple more weeks (or more, I lost track of time) in the hospital and ten min before her ride back to rehab was due, she found out her roommate tested positive for Covid during a random screening. Rehab wouldn’t take her until she was quarantined for ten days. She finally got back to rehab and didn’t seem terribly motivated but against my better judgement they sent her back to assisted living a month or so later. She fell the very next day and was back to rehab. Her clavicle won’t heal w/o surgery and she’s not a good candidate for more surgery given her age and overall lack of motivation. I guess she was healed better and/or more motivated after this most recent rehab stint because she’s been home a couple of weeks without falls.

All this to say 1) the patient needs to be motivated 2) there needs to be a reasonable prognosis that the rehab will actually help and 3) some places walk people to the door and back to their bed and call it rehab. You need to find out what kind of rehab they’re doing and what kind your parent actually needs to be independent again. What activities do they do day to day and what’s going to help them do it. Usually there’s an OT component that needs to be addressed too—getting dressed, bathing, getting in and out of bed, picking something up off the floor etc. [/quote]

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