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Topic: Parenting parents ; any thoughts
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PacificStar48

Mon 11/16/15 10:49 PM

Mingle land has a diverse age range so I am sure there are people who are parenting Parents. And how it effects dating. Presents some interesting experiences.
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MelMaxx

Tue 11/17/15 05:42 AM

Oh yes!!!...when you are in the middle of a hot-sex-session and your phone rings with "your mother is on the phone" slaphead slaphead slaphead slaphead ....you HAVE to answer because you don't know if it's a true emergency and she says "I was making a sandwich and thought you'd like one?"slaphead slaphead slaphead slaphead slaphead grumble grumble
Dementia SUCKS :angry:
Edited by MelMaxx on Tue 11/17/15 05:43 AM
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PacificStar48

Tue 11/17/15 06:20 PM

True Or they confuse your date with a relative and decide to drag out the funeral album for their wife and share the "corpse" shots. lol
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graygentleman

Tue 11/17/15 09:14 PM

I have not had to deal with this personally as both my parents are not in my life.

Unfortunately I deal with this quite often professionally. It is very difficult to even get the real location where they are at when they call, as a lot of times they regress to previous homes and places they live. They can forget both who and why they called, and sometimes they call about a problem they had yesterday or even years ago. I am still debating creating a class for other professionals how to handle calls from the very young and the elderly folks since they are often very similar in how you manage those calls.
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MelMaxx

Wed 11/18/15 05:07 AM


I have not had to deal with this personally as both my parents are not in my life.

Unfortunately I deal with this quite often professionally. It is very difficult to even get the real location where they are at when they call, as a lot of times they regress to previous homes and places they live. They can forget both who and why they called, and sometimes they call about a problem they had yesterday or even years ago. I am still debating creating a class for other professionals how to handle calls from the very young and the elderly folks since they are often very similar in how you manage those calls.

That is an absolute GREAT IDEA! I would venture that it would be a great success. Yes, the real young like 5 years old are sometimes more adept than the elders who have medical conditions as well as dementia. lol
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graygentleman

Wed 11/18/15 08:35 AM



I have not had to deal with this personally as both my parents are not in my life.

Unfortunately I deal with this quite often professionally. It is very difficult to even get the real location where they are at when they call, as a lot of times they regress to previous homes and places they live. They can forget both who and why they called, and sometimes they call about a problem they had yesterday or even years ago. I am still debating creating a class for other professionals how to handle calls from the very young and the elderly folks since they are often very similar in how you manage those calls.

That is an absolute GREAT IDEA! I would venture that it would be a great success. Yes, the real young like 5 years old are sometimes more adept than the elders who have medical conditions as well as dementia. lol


Agreed... My 4 year old grandson would probably be easier to get the necessary information out of then my grandpa was before he died. But I have dealt with some 5 and under callers that were difficult to understand sometimes due to hysteria, speech, and even lack of knowledge yet.
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PacificStar48

Wed 11/18/15 09:32 PM


I have not had to deal with this personally as both my parents are not in my life.

Unfortunately I deal with this quite often professionally. It is very difficult to even get the real location where they are at when they call, as a lot of times they regress to previous homes and places they live. They can forget both who and why they called, and sometimes they call about a problem they had yesterday or even years ago. I am still debating creating a class for other professionals how to handle calls from the very young and the elderly folks since they are often very similar in how you manage those calls.



This would be a project I would be very interested in. Since EMT's are in the home frequently early in family care or when self care starts to decline there are a number of opportunities to do public education and even prevention of several "problems" by encouraging patients and caregiver to attend a class to earn a discount coupons for those first "rides" to the hospital which often happens before they have enough insurance coverage to not have substantial out of pocket.


I am thinking about writing something for family caregivers now that I have some time. Maybe even doing some teaching videos for caregivers or how Families of one can prepare for their own emergencies.
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graygentleman

Wed 11/18/15 10:06 PM



I have not had to deal with this personally as both my parents are not in my life.

Unfortunately I deal with this quite often professionally. It is very difficult to even get the real location where they are at when they call, as a lot of times they regress to previous homes and places they live. They can forget both who and why they called, and sometimes they call about a problem they had yesterday or even years ago. I am still debating creating a class for other professionals how to handle calls from the very young and the elderly folks since they are often very similar in how you manage those calls.



This would be a project I would be very interested in. Since EMT's are in the home frequently early in family care or when self care starts to decline there are a number of opportunities to do public education and even prevention of several "problems" by encouraging patients and caregiver to attend a class to earn a discount coupons for those first "rides" to the hospital which often happens before they have enough insurance coverage to not have substantial out of pocket.


I am thinking about writing something for family caregivers now that I have some time. Maybe even doing some teaching videos for caregivers or how Families of one can prepare for their own emergencies.

I was thinking about a class for other 911 dispatchers. There is actually already a geriatric class on the EMS side here {I did not write}, part of that class was having students put on safety goggles covered on the outside with surgi-lube, and then the students have to describe their surroundings and a common item (simulates having cataracts). Also students have to put on ear phones and try to communicate with each other (simulating hearing difficulties).
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PacificStar48

Sun 11/29/15 11:05 PM

There are a lot of ways for professionals to learn to walk a mile in their patients shoes. I think probably the hardest is to understand the disorientation and fear that they often feel because all control is lost to illness, injury , or infirmity; sometimes all three. And the absolute loss of dignity that some of the usual norms of procedures inflict.