Comments on: A Caregivers Scare, Part 2

By: Challenge to Caregivers and Other Kind People

Challenge to Caregivers and Other Kind People — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:33:14 +0000

[...] out of food before the end of the month. If you have been reading this blog, you will find in a previous post that my god-sister was sick last week and I did not send her to her Senior Day Care Center. I am [...]

By: Hattie

Hattie — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:14:13 +0000

Oh, good. That is so nice to hear!!! We were dumb and waited too long to get outside help, but obviously you haven’t made that mistake.

By: Valerie Johnson

Valerie Johnson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:30:35 +0000

Hi Hattie, Gladys is currently under the care of a geriatrician. Now that she has ceased the antibiotic that was prescribed and her bladder infection has cleared up, she is pretty much back to normal.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:59:05 +0000

I don’t know what kind of evaluation she’s had, but when my late MIL seemed to be failing in ways we could not assess, we took her to a gerontologist. The gerontologist was able to recommend home hospice care for her. This meant a visiting nurse once a week, necessary equipment such as a hospital bed and commode, pads and diapers and so on. It was a huge help, most of all because we were getting support and advice from the hospice team. I wish we had had the sense to do this sooner than we did.