Has anyone brought their loved one home after rehab at skilled nursing home instead of admitted to resident?

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tboudreaux1982 Asked February 2021

Has anyone brought their loved one home after rehab at skilled nursing home instead of admitted to resident?

My grandmother, was very independent before she took her first fall and FX her shoulder. Not a lot of medical problems but this fall took her down, she’s a family person. Loves to be with us. She just not doing better in the NH rehab. I don’t know if it’s the lack of interactions because the staff don’t really come in much. We cant go due to Covid and we know we would make sure she has good nutrition here and water intake. She’s just mentally afraid to walk. Right now she’s taking steps on the walker but has anxiety at Rehab so they have her on Xanax and she’s sleeping more on that. I just am not ready to have her there permanently. Did anyone improve once they got home ? It’s her first admission in her life and the four walls are killing her I just want her to progress in PT but it’s only so much we can do without going inside the building

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If you work, hire someone to help her so she's not alone.

All the best

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Most facilities are understaffed and residents are not “safer” there as you might think. Residents are normally alone in their bedrooms where many falls occur. From my experience with a highly rated local facility where my brother and sister are in memory care, they are understaffed and residents fall constantly. My brother has broken both hips from falls and my sister fell and broke her hip and is now wheelchair bound.
I can’t determine if you’ll be able to care for your grandmother at home, but don’t make a decision based on thinking she’d get better care at a facility.

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I think she get better care home to be honest. We all work but even with work we could montior her better. She’s just progressing really slow from the fall, when the day she fell she was still driving

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It's certainly worth giving it a try, if you all feel you can handle all that it involves. She will probably thrive more being around her loved ones. My husband always did much better once he returned home from the hospital or hospice facility. You can always have PT and OT set up for her in your home. God bless you as you take this venture on. Keep us posted as to how it all plays out.

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I brought my Husband home after his stint in rehab.
As long as you can care for her.
As long as you can provide a safe place for her. There should be no problem bringing her home.
If you are bringing her home before her allotted PT and OT are completed you can have the therapists come to the house.
YOU also need to make sure that she follows though with the therapies that are prescribed.
Keep in mind if she is afraid to walk this can snowball into her not walking, and wheelchair use, and a 1 then a 2 person assist for transfers then that goes to using eq1uipment a Sit to Stand then eventually a Hoyer Lift.

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You can bring her home with in home PT and OT.

I believe that our mental health is more than 50% of our healing process.

If everyone is on board with trying it at home, go for it.

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We are. We miss her. It’s hard to make these decisions!!! Even my friend that’s a doctor said they do better at home !!! I will give her few more weeks at Rehab to try and get her stronger

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Has anyone brought their loved one home after rehab at skilled nursing home instead of admitted to resident?

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