AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 126.

 

I am not so sure. There is, I believe, a balance to be achieved, and that the practice of 'taking precautions' by automatically referring or conveying physically vulnerable and elderly people to hospitals.  

To have further medical checks, can be overdone and even become abusive and stressful. 

We do have concerns when young children fall, but the hospitals would be inundated if every young child were to be automatically taken to A&E departments every time have a fall. 

It makes sense to be guided by the expertise of the paramedics, and for their to be a period of monitoring after a fall, to see if any initially hidden harm will become visible. 

Unless, of course, there are indications of injury at the time of the initial examination, which requires the person to be taken to the hospital for further examination and/or treatment.

The issue of my dear mother having falls, is currently a big one, as she has had others since the one mentioned above. 

The challenge is that of why does she have these falls, and how to avoid her having them?  

Well, my dear mother has falls because of her desire to attempt to do something, such as getting from point a to point b.  And, because of her decreasing strength and coordination. 

Her encountering increasing difficulties in managing the complex processes involved in thinking of an activity and executing the actions which are necessary to achieving it.

To be continued!