Any advice on how to get the nursing staff to take better care of my mom's new hearing aids? We have lost 2 sets now. I would like my mom with dementia to wear her hearing aids all day but the nursing home keeps the new set at the nursing station. I think not hearing all day is adding to her anxiety and surly isn't helping with her dementia.
Google "hearing aid necklace."
Keep them attached to hearing aid clips (on a lanyard or string) so that if they fall, they won’t go far.
We kept my mother’s in a little container on her nightstand overnight. The health aides helped her put them on every morning.
Amazon immediately afterwards. (By the way, Costco replaces theirs one time when lost. A friend's husband was one of the national leaders in hearing academics. Said buy cheap hearing aids for sure ie. costco) The cords are silicone with a hoop going around each one. That being said, the chances of keeping them in a nursing home for any length of time are nil. My MIL lost several. When I saw the aides changing her, one reason was obvious. They were always understaffed, in a hurry, and the hearing aids could end up in the laundry etc. She had no idea of how to care for them. They are tiny. The cords might decrease this loss for a bit. I wonder if there are headsets that might serve to increase hearing; they would be harder to lose, especially with a name on them. I really believe it is a losing battle, among many. They sell them online as well, less expensive, how good?, and. even so they will be lost. I work at not losing mine or wearing them in the shower myself.
The staff aren't careful with people things even when you put the resident's name on them.
A lot of the time the staff isn't even to blame. Other residents with dementia take these things. Often the person who owns them misplaces them too.
There's not a lot you can do. You can ask at the nurse's desk for them to put her hearing aides in during her AM care then to check on them throughout the day to make sure she's still wearing them. Connie has a good idea about maybe having her use a headband to keep hearing aids in place, or even some other kind of device. Then an aide can remove them at night and return them to the nurse's station.
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