Lewy Body Dementia Association, Inc.

dvanbiljon · Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 1

My mother diaganosed with LBD 1 year ago, has been in a nursing home for the past year, has a horrific bedsore, was moved to LifeCare, a wound care hospital, she is still refusing all care and medication. Help......what do we do with her?
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robin · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

Does your mother have a living will or advance care directive, indicating her wishes in writing? Presumably she had to fill out a POLST form or similar form when she moved into the first nursing home.

I suggest you have your mother assessed by a geriatric psychiatrist to determine if she's mentally competent to make her own decisions. If she is, treat her as she wants. If she is not, treat her according to her written wishes.

raffcons · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 707 Location: CA

As gently as I can, might I suggest she really wants to die? Between the LBD diagnosis and the bed sore discomfort and all the fuss, is this her way -- consciously or consciously -- of simply choosing to not drag this out? Knowing her as well as you do, you might have a better sense of whether this might be part of what is going on.
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