Hearing impaired and creative people please help!?!
Question: Hearing impaired and creative people please help!!?
My grandparents live in an assisted living facility, (not a nursing home, they just make them dinner, clean their "apartment" and have 'help' pullies in every room!. My grandma just got diagnosed with cancer again, and were worried about her new treatment disorienting her and making her fall at night!. Her and my grandpa have seperate rooms, b/c of sleep equipment noise!.
Anyway, my grandpa is VERY hard of hearing, and we can't figure out how to make sure he wakes up if she needs help!. She can't yell loud, she has advanced lung cancer!. She fell out of bed not to long ago and had to wait until he woke up in the morning and got his attention by shining a flashlight at a mirror!!! We're so worried she'll have to lay there again if she gets up again at night and falls!. (She couldn't reach the help pull and she takes her Lifeline necklace thingy off when she sleeps)
We are thinking about getting a baby monitor, but my grandpa is so hard of hearing, it probably won't wake him upWww@Answer-Health@Com
Anyway, my grandpa is VERY hard of hearing, and we can't figure out how to make sure he wakes up if she needs help!. She can't yell loud, she has advanced lung cancer!. She fell out of bed not to long ago and had to wait until he woke up in the morning and got his attention by shining a flashlight at a mirror!!! We're so worried she'll have to lay there again if she gets up again at night and falls!. (She couldn't reach the help pull and she takes her Lifeline necklace thingy off when she sleeps)
We are thinking about getting a baby monitor, but my grandpa is so hard of hearing, it probably won't wake him upWww@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Extend what you are calling the "Help Pull" so that it can be reached from the floor!. Find a device that makes a lot of noise (a radio or some kind of bell or buzzer might work) that she could use as an alarm and set it under the edge of the bed!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I don't know what to do about your grandfather, but you should definitely consider getting your grandmother one of those things around her wrist so that she can hit the button & 911 will come!. My grandmother has one because she's 86 & lives alone!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
maybe it is about time she goes into a nursing home!. i hate to say it but it sounds like she needs the care they offer!. it doesn't have to be a permanent thing!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
maybe see about getting them a service animalWww@Answer-Health@Com