Safety
- My father is reverting to thinking he’s a much younger man, and he feels he needs to be at work. Last week he got dressed and got on the bus. He didn’t know where he was going, and we didn’t know where he went. This sent the entire family into a state of panic. My mom wants to keep caring for him at home, but she’s so hard of hearing and she sleeps so soundly that she doesn’t hear him get up and start moving about.
- I’m concerned about my mother’s safety. She doesn’t even remember if she’s turned off the stove or not.
- My mother has rugs all over her retirement apartment. The nurse in the community told her that she may want to consider taking them out, because the nurse is concerned that my mother will trip over the carpets. Truth be known, she has, and she’s even fallen; but they are one of her fondest memories of her home and her past. To give them up would be a great loss to her. What do I do?
