My deceased father who had mild dementia was put in rehab for pain control for a compression fracture. The SMF put him on resperidol, zyrexia, along with MS contin for pain, robinol, lexapro and nerontin. He went from alert and able to walk to on his own to unarousable in a chair within 48 hours of admission. He also developed urinary retention as a side effect and ended up being straight cathed and then developed a UTI. He lost 50 lbs. in 6 months. Oh, they also put him in diapers. He was too sleepy for PT and they would not discharge him as he wasn’t ready yet. Some meds were discontinued but his affect never came back. He had many set backs with 2 hospitalizations in between, but once we got him home, he had 14 months of good life at home before he died from an aortic aneurysm that ruptured due to being put on coumadin for afib. I was at the SNF every day to oversee his care. If I hadn’t, he would have never made it
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