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if your mom is tiny, you might want to look at kids furniture, IKEA stuff or “dorm” furnishings as the scale is so much smaller and usually stuff is way cheaper, & see if the AL can swap out their stuff so you can bring in smaller scale items for her.
Can she even work her closet? My mom couldn’t reach up that high. I found Umbra rod extenders at the Container Store for her. Just great.
if she has trouble reaching up to turn on lamps, I’d suggest that you put up a couple of high narrow shelves (use that 3M repositioning system & tape) and set battery operated candles on them set to have them cascade light from sunset to maybe 9AM. So there’s always a bit of soft light for her to see where she is.
if You’re years away from looking at college for your kids, “dorm” is a whole category nowadays. Items are scaled down, bright colors and pretty user friendly. Btw “dorm” is often taken to the extreme.... google “dorms at Ole Miss”, whoever said the MRS degree plan was dead never saw a southern girls freshman dorm room, not a desk in sight, it’s all cosmetics, clothes, accessories & Greek, rothflmao.
It's so hard right now. If I could get in there, I could have everything set up and organized in an afternoon. As it is, although the staff is helpful, they don't really have time to do stuff like that. I think they will put some lower shelves and clothes bar which would be good.
Funny about the dorm stuff. I have small kids but I'm old enough to have had dorms that were more like what I would imagine military barracks would be!
Hopefully they ensure that she can safely utilize the fix.
It is great that they are stepping up and doing what they can.
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for AL after that only 50% of the rooms must be ADA compliant, like wider doors for wheelchairs, roll in showers, lower cabinets. The public spaces however must be ADA accessible. But this just might mean handrails on the walls, non-skid walkways, larger signage, ramps adjacent to all stairs.
The issue for AL is that in theory it’s AL, & not skilled nursing care, so they might need help in getting dressed, might need help with medication management, might need help to transition into & out of the shower. They do not need to be disabled to live in AL. If in AL they are supposed to be kinda ok on thier ADLs perhaps with some assistance & sometime. The problem often is that families or elders want to go into an AL as it’s significantly less $ than a SNF but they really are not good enough on thier ADLs to do for themselves. AL aren’t staffed to be hands on all the time. So gaps in care or gaps on equipment available but allowed as it’s just AL.
The facility sounds like they are doing what they can as carpenter is in her room retrofitting. If this just doesn’t work, then I’d suggest that you try to place her on a list to move to one of the total wheelchair accessible rooms. If she’s like tiny, petite, even ADA compliant is going to be too high For her. If after the retrofit done, it’s still problematic, I’d suggest that you ask the SW at the AL about her getting a needs assessment done. It may be that she actually needs SNF and not AL.
She was in a SNF and they recommended ALF, though she does need quite a bit of help at this point yet.
The place is only two years old, so I guess I was just a little surprised there weren't any rooms. set up a little more accommodating. Hopefully they can get the work done quickly. She was having to get drinking water from the shower faucet. They brought in a bunch of bottled water for her to use.