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She can't see! A pleasant room is unnoticed to a blind person and her roommate isn't there to care for your Mother, that is the staff' job. What is best is to closest to the nurse station as possible. Who cares about her roommate. Maybe she should be in a facility that has more experience with blind residents.
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Tlkent I am afraid that an alarmed floor mat may be viewed as a restraint in NYS

Comuter girl have you ever been a patient in a nursing home?

Yes this lady is blind and can not see her surroundings but I don't believe she is deaf.

Her room mate is a plaesant and careing person and the patient's family visits with her too
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I agree it is the staff job to look after patients but that does not include one on one care 24/7. I would have loved to have had room mates like that when I was in hospital and rehab

Imagine someone who never sleeps constantly poops the bed and waits hours to be cleaned up while you are trying to eat, or comes from a large family who talk loudly in their native language.

I would opt as I said in a previous post to not put Mom close to the nurses station and the constant noise and commotion that goes on there. Pleasant room keeps the room mate in good spirits and looking out for Mom gives her something positive to do with her life.

This familly's problem is stopping Mom falling and getting round the over zealous restrictions on restraints, this is a major problem with many elders blind or sighted.
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wondering why in the world a bed alarm is banned? Craziest thing I have ever heard of.
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With the Alzheimer Mat the alarm does not sound in the patients room , it would sound at the nurses station.
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When my dad was in the hospital they had bed sensors that rang at the nurses station to alert them when my dad was getting out of bed.
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Thanks everyone for your thoughts! Just to follow up, I did start raising the foot of her bed up moderately while she took her naps the past 2 days, ( in addition to the bed already being lowered to the floor). When she woke up, I said Ok Mom let’s get up, and watched her flounder, unsuccessfully getting her legs and feet moved out of the well in the bed. The nurses were happy to get another tool to use, and it’s going on her care plan today.
I will research the fall alarm that rings at the nurses station.
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I think some of you may have touched on this type of 'prevention' monitor, but not sure, so will describe what I recently found for my 90 yo dear AD wife, who can't walk and resides in a wonderful 4-bed residential type ALH with hospice oversight. Turned out when I started looking I discovered a simple ~10" x 30" smart pad system on the internet that's placed under fitted sheets and across the bed under the shoulders...where it reports if both shoulders lift (normally a necessary prep to getting out of bed), but not for roll-over position changes. When detecting a 2-shoulder lift, it transmits an alarm signal up to 100' to a small battery powered portable remote receiver which has an on/off switch plus a volume settable pleasant chime alarm that providers can mount on an appropriate wall or move it around depending on who's the 'monitor for the night'.

Simple, effective prevention, that really works...at less than $110! My only constant regret is that I didn't think to research and buy one before her recent attempt to get up in the wee hours and, struggling past the hospice provided side-barred bed, managed to fall...breaking her left hip in the process!

Just think, a mere $100 might have saved the $50,000+ surgery needed to repair the break, never mind the pain and lengthy recovery she's now still having to endure. As a retired engineer, I've simply no excuse for myself for not having thought of the possibility and had installed such a simple and effective system in place in time to have prevented all that.

p.s. For anyone interested, the monitor is marketed with the name "Smart Caregiver Wireless Bed Alarm." Just googling that will identify numerous sources. Hope this helps.
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