This is worse than dealing with raccoons and other critters. A human with dementia is a worthy opponent.
Two years ago, a baby monitor was all we needed to hear if they needed help. Those days are gone.
We are doing everything to keep her in her bed at night. She was getting out three or four times per night. She needs help to get out and go to the bathroom. If we don't help her, she falls. Everything is focused to keep her from getting hurt from a fall. It is annoying to have to go through the lifting routines for her, so none of us gets hurt righting the ship.... She is getting good at defeating some of last few upgrades. In the last week we had enough. We decided to up our game.
The bed had an alarm on it that tells us she is up and we have used that for about three months. The bathroom now has a motion sensor to tell us some one is moving in the bathroom. I now have an IR camera watching her bed with motion sensing feature that gets it first use tonight, the alarm goes off in the house and on mine and my wife's cell phone. The door to her bathroom now has a electronic chime that chirps when the door is opened.
The previous hospital bed had basic side rails to keep her in but she would scoot down and still get off the bed before the sensors would trip. She even figured out how to use her hand to keep the alarm from tripping too early. The service took the rental bed back and we purchased a Styker hospital bed. This one should do the job.
When we put her to bed tonight, she asked about the new bed and the other things I installed, She is going to do her best probing for weaknesses in the system. We can now talk back to her via the camera speaker if we see her moving around. I joked we needed a shock pad to finish out the system, but there is not one on the market (yet)
Tonight is the first time all the features are in place to keep her in bed.
I'll let you know if it worked....and if we slept through the night.
Two years ago, a baby monitor was all we needed to hear if they needed help. Those days are gone.
We are doing everything to keep her in her bed at night. She was getting out three or four times per night. She needs help to get out and go to the bathroom. If we don't help her, she falls. Everything is focused to keep her from getting hurt from a fall. It is annoying to have to go through the lifting routines for her, so none of us gets hurt righting the ship.... She is getting good at defeating some of last few upgrades. In the last week we had enough. We decided to up our game.
The bed had an alarm on it that tells us she is up and we have used that for about three months. The bathroom now has a motion sensor to tell us some one is moving in the bathroom. I now have an IR camera watching her bed with motion sensing feature that gets it first use tonight, the alarm goes off in the house and on mine and my wife's cell phone. The door to her bathroom now has a electronic chime that chirps when the door is opened.
The previous hospital bed had basic side rails to keep her in but she would scoot down and still get off the bed before the sensors would trip. She even figured out how to use her hand to keep the alarm from tripping too early. The service took the rental bed back and we purchased a Styker hospital bed. This one should do the job.
When we put her to bed tonight, she asked about the new bed and the other things I installed, She is going to do her best probing for weaknesses in the system. We can now talk back to her via the camera speaker if we see her moving around. I joked we needed a shock pad to finish out the system, but there is not one on the market (yet)
Tonight is the first time all the features are in place to keep her in bed.
I'll let you know if it worked....and if we slept through the night.
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You have my respect and sympathies.
