My mom is in a nursing home and is pretty much bed bound, except when they get her up for meals. I have heard to so many elderly patients getting bed sores after a while and I want to try and prevent that from happening. The nursing home said they only supply those once a patient has bed sores.
I am willing to buy one, but have seen some on medical supply sites online that are over a thousand dollars. Any suggestions if you have had experience with
a mattress pad that will make a difference. Thanks.
I'm guessing that they really are expensive, even up to $1k as you've seen. Perhaps you could talk to your mother's primary care doctor or internist and ask if she/he will write a prescription for it. It might be that the nursing home could then get Medicare to pay for it.
I don't like the idea of waiting until someone has bed sores to treat them.
Your mother is in NH... Does CNA or nurses aide assisting your mother for turn every couple of hours? why I said this I worked at NH, it's no reason to having the very painful sore on any patients at all!!!! Specially 24 hours care.
I truly appreciate it. At this point my mom seems to be doing pretty
good and I hope it stays that way, but you do really need to be on
top of things and speak up for your nursing home loved ones to make
sure things are taken care of.
Maybe you could talk to her primary doctor and if he writes an Rx they will have to get one for her. You would think for a bedridden patient they would want to use one before a patient gets bedsores because when they do, it is a lot more work. If they won't, you could google it and see what is out there in medical supply sites.