[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Since your elder is new to the facility, and no longer has full time family care, this is a huge adjustment.

Our Granddaughter in med school, works at 3 facilities (her specialty aging ortho trauma).

At each facility 5-12 patients per hands on employee. Even with 5 patients, if you are engaged with one patient, 4 others would be pushing buttons wanting needs to be taken care of immediately.
5 is doable at a small private facility, but patients can sometimes wait for an hour. Why because you could be in a room for 5 to 40 minutes. (Clean up is time consuming)

One facility has push buttons. A full time non patient caregiver takes request, caregiver grabs request slips as they run by. She honestly thinks her care level is less hands on, with call button then to the stop in each room. Mainly because some patients just want and expect immediate attention sometimes 15 times in an hour.

Sadly what she has found is those who’s family rarely if ever show up, is the patients pushing the buttons constantly. They are lonely usually want that human contact more than needs.

You have found a facility that you are happy with, have a camera in the room in case of emergency, give it some time. Otherwise your best option is spending great deals of time in the room, which doesn’t help in adjusting to a whole new life for you and him. Our experience is button doesn’t get better care, if staff is overwhelmed

Good luck and take a moment for yourself, your wellbeing is very important

Sounds like what I have heard from various home care people we have had the past almost 3.5 years for help with my mother. Many of these ladies have worked in area nursing homes as well as memory care places.