My mother is 91 and lives with my sister and her family. She needs asistance to get around and dozes most of the day, however, once they puther to bed. she doesn't go to sleep and gets out of her bed during the night falling on the floor. We've been lucky with only bruises but she broke her wrist a few months ago and we are worried about a more severe injury in the future. We've tried a child's bed rail and she got all caught in it trying to get out of the bed. She's even getting nasty about bed time. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We've also tried to keep her up during the day as she sits in her chair. She had dementia also.
I imagine she wakes up during the night because she sleeps so much during the day, but as you're trying to keep her awake, I'm not sure there's much else that can be done other than planning activities to keep her awake inbetween naps.
The other issue is whether any of the meds she takes in the morning make her more drowsy and if the evening meds make her more alert. And if she's awake at night, she's more tired during the day. So the process has to be reversed, but it sounds as though it's not that easy since she's become "nasty" about bedtime.