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Jun 23, 2009 11:20 PM

Misleading Advertisement


A local home care agency advertised their services on one of the radio stations. A frail voice says that an aide will come in the morning to help her get into a wheelchair, and then an aide will come again in the evening to help her get into her bed. The question is, whatever happens to the patient in between the visits? Let alone the fact that she is at risk for decubs, how about her output? She either sits all day in a soaking wet diaper, or else she has a Foley which hopefully will not overflow for the duration of the whole day. How about BM?

Tell you what, this advertisement apparently works for the general public, although it is totally misleading. A paid advertisement, nothing else.


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No. 1
Old Jun 24, 2009, 12:03 AM

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Conjuring up visions of stale urine and dried BM never sells. Independence does sell. Suffice it to say that everyone here knows the truth, though.
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from shiccy
Old Jun 24, 2009, 03:58 AM

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Keep in mind depending on the ability of the patient's family to assist a bit, the installation of disability assisted living conditions (bars in the restroom, life alert bracelets/necklaces/etc), some people have the ability to move somewhat, but just find it difficult to get into and out of the chairs from a laying position.
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from fuzzywuzzy
Old Jun 24, 2009, 08:56 AM

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They're probably just trying to show people that they can send aides out any time, morning noon and night.
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from RNperdiem
Old Jun 24, 2009, 11:54 AM

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I have known an aide who did that kind of care as a second job.
His patient was a young man with a spinal cord injury who just needed assistance with morning and evening personal care.
People have different levels of assistance needed.
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Old Jun 24, 2009, 08:55 PM

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And I've known a man with a spinal cord injury (paraplegic) who used an aide in the morning to get transferred to a wheelchair, and then at night to be transferred back to bed. He had a Foley. In time, he developed decubs.
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from fuzzywuzzy
Old Jun 24, 2009, 11:23 PM

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Well then he should have had more than just 2 visits a day. I'm not getting the outrage here. It's just a commercial. It would be up to the home health nurse to educate the family about all that stuff.
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