IN - Woman Treated for Maggot-Infested Wounds (caution: graphic)

[Camper]

A note about being the full time and only caregiver, be aware of the results of the labor and sadness that totals major debilitation of your own vitality.

The time will come when you are unable to even leave the house for longer than an hour, to grocery shop or do basic things, when you are the sole caregiver.

I was in the ER six times just prior to my husbands death, and had a second heart surgery 3 weeks after his death. Daily stress works its way into your mind, heart, and body.

FIND help early on, do not suffer through the total care alone. I too cared for my elderly mother, gave up my job to do so. We went down the financial hole for my doing so, again was a prisoner so to speak until my older children came home from school each day so that I could GO to the grocery store, and do errands.

Noble love is wonderful, but reality extracts its price over time.

It has taken several years for me to regain my vigor and life outlook, it is a hard walk to recover from the loss of a loved one.

Further, workers that observe such sadness on a daily basis seeing dozens of people slipping away has to have a more immediate effect and affect their caregiving as well.

No wonder the turnover is so massive. It takes very special dedicated and physically strong people to care for our senior citizens.

After three years I am ready to love, be loved again and cared for, it is now my turn.

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[Opie]

Camper, God bless you and all other caregivers like you. I know whereof you speak, having seen my own mother go thru something similar with my grandmother and then with my father. Thank God that my mother lived to an advanced age without needing such care, as I honestly do not know if I would have been able to provide it.

 

[partyuv5]

My grandmother has bypass surgery and valve replacement. She is 80. I love her dearly. She was in a nursing home for rehab. All they taught her was how to put on a sock with a tool. It took some time and she is back home. I made sure she was safe. We were there every day.

I did work at a nursing home and was repramanded for not brushing a resident's teeth. I was making (6.00) an hour (1989) and has a whole wing that I had to tend to. Her family was there every day and wanted their loved one to be cared for. I tried to take care of all them. It's too much.

I quit that job. Although I am successful now. I still remember my job when I was a single parent.

 

[lorann]

My grandmother has bypass surgery and valve replacement. She is 80. I love her dearly. She was in a nursing home for rehab. All they taught her was how to put on a sock with a tool. It took some time and she is back home. I made sure she was safe. We were there every day.

I did work at a nursing home and was repramanded for not brushing a resident's teeth. I was making (6.00) an hour (1989) and has a whole wing that I had to tend to. Her family was there every day and wanted their loved one to be cared for. I tried to take care of all them. It's too much.

I quit that job. Although I am successful now. I still remember my job when I was a single parent.

Bless you, after observing the gals who took care of my relative, they must have been like you. The kindest gal will most likely not be able to go on and get a better job, in her off hours from this home, she worked at another one. She was maybe 55 yrs old. We spent some time talking and she said most patients were kind, some were not - and most of the families were kind, some were not, but everyone deserves care, a bath, and a hug when called for. She always dressed my relative in blue because she thought she looked pretty in blue. She could get her to eat when I couldn't. I still send her my thanks every year, something in blue. Thanks Wilma.

 

[Rayemonde]

March 2007:

In the state's latest investigation, Riverwalk Communities was found in violation of 18 state requirements, most of them described as having potentially wide-reaching consequences.

During that January survey, the state Department of Health found, among other problems, that a diabetic resident's blood sugar level had reached a high level, and that another resident's complaint of inappropriate touching by a male visitor was not properly investigated.

The state's survey team also found that Riverwalk had not conducted required fire drills, and failed to have licensed nursing staff conduct ongoing evaluations of residents' needs.

The survey also cited Riverwalk for issues related to medication management, record keeping, building maintenance, employee screening, cleanliness and infection control.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/...cle_7af2a749-26e8-5539-b193-e3783a8d81b4.html


This place is still open... I sure hope things have changed!

 

[Rayemonde]

May 2007:

When Riverwalk Communities moves its assisted-living operation out of the McCurdy building and into an East Side nursing facility, it must give its residents the choice of moving with it or going elsewhere.

Dennis Rosebrough, spokesman for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, said the agency is aware there has been "some pressure" on residents to move into Riverwalk's new location. But he said the agency will insist residents or their families are given the choice.

"The operator of the facility can't just load up and move the people; they cannot do that," Rosebrough said.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/lo...a-choice-ep-449319083-327092301.html?d=mobile

 

[Rayemonde]

Feb 2010:

Steve Scott, the managing member of City Centre Properties, said he and his partners soon will release a construction schedule for the McCurdy project, which was first made public in May 2007.

Until now, the biggest obstacle was finding new living accommodations for the roughly 85 people who lived in the building as residents of Riverwalk Communities, an assisted-living home.

Scott said he was relieved to learn the residents could move to rooms at the former Welborn Baptist Hospital. The Kunkel Group, a local development company, bought that campus last year and has prepared it to become the new Riverwalk Communities.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/lo...revealed-ep-446887983-326885821.html?d=mobile

 

[Rayemonde]

Riverwalk is now an assisted-living community and adult daycare, and I can't find any recent scandals...