Mom fell several months ago and broke her hip. Since the fall she has gotten full blown dementia. We have put her in assisted living and she is also on Hospice. We have added a bed alarm to her bed, but somehow she still falls out of the bed with rails and falls out of her lift chair that is sitting flat. I get a minimum 1 call a night and some during the day hours to alert me she has fallen. So far she hasn't gotten hurt, but every time the phone rings I'm afraid that it's going to be the call that she has. We've asked/told her not to get up without paging for assistance, but she never does. Last night the nurse had just gone in to check on her and was getting her medicine. Ten minutes later she walked back into mom's room with her medicine and found mom on the floor.Mom tells us she needs to clean or take care of the children that she thinks is in the room or bed with her. She has the alert necklace and bed alarm. My next step is to get a baby monitor that will stay with the nurse that is assigned to her. I'm trying to get that approved now. The doctors are tweaking meds, etc. I'm at wits end and don't know what else to do. Any suggestions out there?
Sorry this is a difficult phase.
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