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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, your physician is wrong. Hospice is end of life care. Hospital bed would be ideal. Also, is the facility continued care? May be time to move to higher level care or as mentioned hire a night nurse to monitor. Yes, they do fall asleep and miss falls, but even in your own home you would miss some things.[/quote]

They said its assisted living.  They need to hire a caretaker or go to a nursing home but most nursing homes only check very two hours at best so it still will be an issue.[/quote]

I would imagine that most nursing homes do more overnight checks than would be done in a home environment.  It stands to reason that no matter where Op puts her mom there is going to be a risk that her mom will fall and be on the ground for awhile before someone checks on her.  Ugh, old age is hard.[/quote]

They should but they don't.  We spent years fighting with the nursing home over it.  At best it was a every two hour check and we don't think those were done.  Best bet is a camera but the nursing home we were at removed the one we put in.[/quote]

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