Got to the ward the other day to find an old lady sitting in a recliner..arm chair..facing outwards to the corridor..opposite the nurse's station..was wondering why she was there..it was only later that I found out she was one of my newie...
apparently she has dementia..and the nurses doesn't trust her to be by herself in her own room..so the only way to keep an eye on her was to sit her in the arm chair and park the arm chair right where the nurses station is so that everyone can look after her...as soon as she starts to get out of the arm chair we would go and pop her back in it..
the alternative is to put bells ..like Christmas bells...on her door and lock her inside her room...that way as soon as her bells start going we know she is on her way out...
it must be hard..as they have to keep her occupy or else she would go wandering again..today they tried the give her a magazine to read..then the newspaper..she called me over...what do I read? where? ... I told her she can start reading the front page..
it must be bliss..don't think she knows where she is or what she is doing...
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