How to Take Care of Me When I Am Old

[bluegeegoo2]

Below is a short list of how I expect to be treated if I end up in a home, as well as the likely outcomes if someone dares to step out of line.

1. Do NOT come try to drag me out of bed at 5 a.m. telling me "It's your shower day." You will get combativeness the likes the world has never seen.

2. Do not label the above as a "behavior" and try to have me put on a psychotropic. How would you like to be dragged out of bed against your will, stripped naked and hosed down that early in the morning by a total stranger?

3. Do not label me "a behavior problem" and again get me put on psychotropics/anxiolytics without 1st assessing me for pain. Have I had a BM lately? Maybe I'm hungry, thirsty, cold, uncomfortable, wet, etc...address those possibilities first, please.

4. If I'm yelling a lot, and often, refer to #3.

5. If you find me asleep in my w/c frequently, for Pete's sake put me to bed!

I'm not asking much. Just please take care of me. Thank you.

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... let's invest in some land somewhere...

OK, so let's get the suggestions going for where.

How 'bout Hawaii?

[ktwlpn, LPN]

I think we need a hot weather and a cold weather option, because some of us will want to experience the change of seasons. So,we need two parcels of land. Hawaii and someplace in New England?

[SRK77]

Maybe now is a good time to have DNR tattooed on my chest. Lol.

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... DNR tattooed on my chest...

Excellent i-dear!

[nrsstephanie]

My care plan is done and my HCP knows what I want....no shoes no socks (Cape Cod kid), no thickened liquids, I will not get out of bed before 9, I will drink as much wine as I want when I want it. I've already been told I won't be admitted where I work now because they all know I won't be compliant. My answer...I hope by the time I need to live in a facility, compliance won't be a word anyone uses.[/quote']

I HATE the word non-compliant!!!!!!!

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

OK, Steph. You got it.

Addendum to the ANNH/RLW:

The word "noncompliant" is hereby stricken, and to be forever banished from this document.

There!

[Katie13LPN]

Hi I think I am going to like my job. I am working in a facility with only 39 units. The clients have Alzhiemer's dementia. The other clients are assisted living clients. I wish other facilities would have this kind of system. I don't believe Long term care should have so many people in a building. The care they get is so very sad. I don't believe families would want that for their loved one.

[ellaballet]

Please don't make me sit in that unsanitary shower chair and hose me down like a dog. I know how well that chair gets "cleaned".

[bluegeegoo2, LPN]

And please don't put a plate full of technicolored puddles in front of me and expect me to eat. I don't like beets now, and am fairly certain I won't like them in "goo" form either.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Below is a short list of how I expect to be treated if I end up in a home, as well as the likely outcomes if someone dares to step out of line.

1. Do NOT come try to drag me out of bed at 5 a.m. telling me "It's your shower day." You will get combativeness the likes the world has never seen.

2. Do not label the above as a "behavior" and try to have me put on a psychotropic. How would you like to be dragged out of bed against your will, stripped naked and hosed down that early in the morning by a total stranger?

3. Do not label me "a behavior problem" and again get me put on psychotropics/anxiolytics without 1st assessing me for pain. Have I had a BM lately? Maybe I'm hungry, thirsty, cold, uncomfortable, wet, etc...address those possibilities first, please.

4. If I'm yelling a lot, and often, refer to #3.

5. If you find me asleep in my w/c frequently, for Pete's sake put me to bed!

I'm not asking much. Just please take care of me. Thank you.

Amen.....