The nurse at the home would like to stop the patch because my husband takes it off and he is scratching it and remove it. He does have what looks like a bruise that is getting bigger. Do I take him off or insist they still put it on him.
The Doctors nurse hates to take him off because he will lose ground. How do deal with the inching and the reaction
Judy
My mom, in LTC, is on the patch and would remove it. They now put it in the upper center of her back where she can't get to it.
It is really important that they get the patch consistently as they will regress in their cognitive abilities if they go off of it and it cannot be regained.
It may be that he is a "picker", if that is the case you want to find something for him to "work" that won't cause problems. My aunt was that type - we got her fancy socks, you know the kind that have lace or pom-poms, she would pick at them
off & on during the day and NOT the skin by her elbow which she had picked raw.
There is a lady at my mom's LTC that wears fancy hair scrunchies on her wrist and I've seen her "picking" at them, so it must be a common elderly behavior.
Good luck.