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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please keep arguing or move him.

My father just passed. I know exactly what you are going thru except my dad was at home with home caregivers.

We had to consistently push back on this sh&t. Unfortunately we did not understand the dynamic. The agency brought in a geri chair and had him sit in at all day long and did not let him stand up or walk. Reason being they did not want to deal with the liability of the risk of falling. We did not understand what was happening exactly. By the time we did, he was so disabled from the lack of being allowed to stand or move that he could not walk. He also had bed sores from being in the same chair all day long. Then they insisted on bed level care and[b] Hoyer lifts.[/b] We had to push back against that and insist they move him between a broad wheelchair, a recliner, and his bed (only at night).

It is awful. They literally disabled him out of fear of his being a fall risk.

We are pushing back more with my mom and making sure they continue to allow her to stand and walk.

Hugs. It is very hard to argue with these damn people. They just care about not having a fall liability risk but I would have rathered my dad kept walking and fallen than waste away for years in that damn geri chair, which I did not realize at the time is effectively a restraint.

Don't listen to the poster who is assuming the best of the agency, saying it is to keep him safe. it is BS. It is to keep the agency or care facility from having a lawsuit and a fall AND it cuts down on the number of people they need to hire to care for people because they don't need to help him transfer, stand up, etc.

I'm sorry. it all sucks.[/quote]

I'm not clear on what you wanted them to do instead of Hoyer lifts. Were you arguing for patient care providers to lift him themselves, or to stabilize him themselves (this is a frequent cause of rotator cuff and back injuries in the provider when the patient falls unexpectedly)?[/quote]

No, I did not phrase it well. They wanted to just leave him in bed all day and do bed baths and feed him in bed even though he was an aspiration risks, even though we had paid out of pocket for an electric Hoyer lift and special shower chairs and wheelchairs. The caregivers absolutely wanted to keep giving him that level of care - they thought it was mean to leave him in ned all the day. it was the agency that kept trying to insist on keeping him in bed. We pushed back at that. it was awful.[/quote]

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