I could no longer care for my 97 year old mother with dementia so I was forced to put her in a facility. She was evaluated by the facility and they determined that she needed to be in their memory care unit. Since there was no bed available, they said they would put her in the assisted living area but make sure that she received the same care she would get in the memory care unit. On her second night there, mom tried to get out of bed and fell and broke her hip. She is having surgery today and then rehab. I don't want to send her back to the facility if they can't give her the care that she needs but I can't take her back home. I am overwhelmed and don't know what to do next.
You have some time while she's in the hospital and rehab to find another place for her. I have to wonder whose bright idea it was to put a 97 year old with dementia in an assisted living apartment even if it was temporary.
The problems of not calling for help are ones we've experienced, especially if new medications are involved. Sometimes there is a perception that help isn't needed, and with dementia, it's hard to convince the patient that that concept is a delusion.
It might be that your mother would eventually have to wear a monitoring bracelet, but I'm not sure if that's merely to prevent patients from wandering outside a building or if it alerts staff to attempted movements to get out of bed.
Someone needs to invent safe motion sensors for hospital beds!