Just needs assistance getting out of bed to go to the potty chair. She can go by herself just there in case of assistance. Able to feed self, use the phone, watch tv etc. medicines and everything at bedside. Water food etc. would a camera system and cameras be good enough. Would some stopping in every 4 or 5 hours be sufficient. What about nights? Looking for advice if anyone is in the same situation. Under hospice care. Patient has hard time occupying time.
Just this Christmas we had an incident. Have a two flat in which we live above our tenants. Their stove did not go on; something about the flame starter. Carbon Monoxide alarm went off. Count this under something can always happen that needs addressing, in a moment. It doesn't happen often, but it CAN happen.
The last 3 months, both of my mom's sitters were out on medical leave. Both had surgery, one very serious and complicated surgery which put her out of commision for 6 months at least.
I had to make do with what I had. No choice. Abandoning my kids and husband to stay with my mom 24/7 is not an option. So, my mother sometimes sleeps by herself overnight when my aunt goes out with her friends. My mom doesn't get out of bed until I come in the morning and get her out. During the day when she naps, she can be left alone if needed.
What gladimhere mentioned are valid concerns but that can also happen at a nursing home, assisted living, or any other facility where they are fully staffed or maybe not fully staffed that day. I guess you have to ask yourself, could you live with that or could you get in trouble if something like this were to happen? I imagine most of us are doing the best we can.
You probably would need someone to keep stopping in to, at the least, make sure she gets to the potty (bedsores/wound) and has done other things that will need to be done in that 24/7 time (meds you mentioned). I would probably want home monitoring other than just me trying to watch from my phone both inside and outside of the home. Do you have anyone you can really count on other than yourself if there is ever a time you can’t be the one to make the stop?
[Patient has a hard time occupying time.] Not sure what you meant with that statement except maybe for example tv will only satisfy temporarily. You also did not state why the bedridden patient needs to be left 24/7 (work for example or trying to keep them in their own home and you in yours) so kind of guessing and hoping something helps you come up with a clear plain of action.