did you want her to have one nurse....and its not nurses..its nurses aids....for all HER needs?....or were the other patients to be ignored....
did she have diabetes?...heart failure?...renal failure?...was she an aspirator?....not able to eat or drink enough....???
did you want her on tube feedings?
WHY did NO family take her home?....complain all you want...but if family is not going to take responsibility, than there is no room to criticize....
Why did the family leave grandma in such a rotten place with such rotten caregivers?....
There's an old Russian saying, the dog has a thousand reasons to hump its own mother.
No grandma in my family ever went to a nursing home, and none ever will while I have say. We care for our own.
There is very little humanity in humanity.
“so how many years did your husbands grandmother LIVE in that awful nursing home?....at least 4 ....and how OLD was she?...and WHY was she in a nursing home?....
did you want her to have one nurse....and its not nurses..its nurses aids....for all HER needs?....or were the other patients to be ignored....
did she have diabetes?...heart failure?...renal failure?...was she an aspirator?....not able to eat or drink enough....???
did you want her on tube feedings?
WHY did NO family take her home?....complain all you want...but if family is not going to take responsibility, than there is no room to criticize....
Why did the family leave grandma in such a rotten place with such rotten caregivers?....”
Frankly you sound rude. You imply crap rather than ask questions.
1) She lived there for five years, 94 when she passed away. She was in the home because she fell all of the time. She wouldn’t use a wheel chair - and would fall often. Her daughter couldn’t care for her-she herself being ill. So, she went in the BEST nursing home in this area - with her own consent.
2) She was actually very healthy when she entered, with the exception of the problem with falling. She had diabetes - managed by diet only, no meds required. She was in the minimal care facility UNTIL her personal bank account dropped to below $100,000. THEN the staff Dr. determined she should go into the full care facility - they claimed they couldn’t put a “fall alarm” on her if she wasn’t in that section.
3)Oh I expect ALL the other patients should have been completely ignored for her sake. Yes I do.
The nurses were responsible for her care. The aides were responsible for her comfort. Aids don’t administer medical care.
4)She began having difficultly drinking in the last year, they added a thickener to the water to help her so that she didn’t gag as much. We were assured that she was doing well with that.
5)She did not need any medical equipment.
6)Perhaps she would have lived had she been given an IV once she had shown signs of dehydration or distress. The medical staff said NOTHING about her being in serious condition, except to call her daughter about fifteen hours before she died, and tell her that her mothers blood pressure was low.
7)You seem to think that the world allows for people to do whatever they want with any situation that pops up. Get over that notion. No family took her home because it was impossible to do so.
Since she was paying good money to be cared for, she should have been cared for properly. There was no excuse for that woman to have died from dehydration.
8)Again - this was rated the best nursing care facility in our region. Since they are supposed to care for the patients, one expects them to do so.
“Grandma” was looked after decently until she ran out of her own money. Then she had to sign up for medi-caid. We still made sure to keep her private med insurance and prescriptions paid for privately. But sad to say after she went on the state rolls, she went downhill pretty quickly. Within six months she was dead. Of DEHYDRATION.