01/23/2012 Wednesday

Questions for 01/24/2012

·       What are you all tracking? Food intake, elimination habits, what else? Time out of bed, participating in activities?

·       Progress to date, quantified by how much help to stand, walk, what other parameters do you measure? etc.

·       Attempt to forecast her progress at March 15^th. Medicare deadline for going home

·       Options to go home- covered by Medicare or Medi-cal

o   Caregivers in the home, 24 or 12 hours?

·       Other options?

·       Emotional support,

o   Other stroke victims, psychologists, I want to be present on some visits.

o   How do I tell her what is going on so she understands it?

·       What are her current meds and vitamins? Still on Ritalin? If not when did it stop and did behavior change?

·       What is palliative care doing and what would hospice do? And where? Here after March 15^th or at home?