I am in fairly good health but am wondering if something should happen to me, heart attack, stroke whatever and an ambulance had to be called what would happen to my husband immediately, would they take him to hospital too? Have a daughter here and we do have some aide help. I need to have everything covered.
She was in the hospital for more than a week until home support could be set up for her. At that point she was put on a wait list for a nursing home. She has been in the nursing home for almost 2 years now. He is now living in Assisted Living.
Good plan to think ahead and handle this before it becomes a problem.
in this case, you could locate one or two nursing agencies, that could be contacted either by you if you are able, or by a friend to have services start until you are able to resume. I don’t think EMS would bring her to hospital with you. What would they do with her? There are facilities also that can do respite care for short term stays.
your concerns might be an indication that your LO might be better off in a facility if funds permit once the Covid emergency is over. They will have 24 hour care from a team, not just from you and you can focus more on your own health.
And what if something happens to you when you are out?
Get one of those health warning bracelets so responders know care is needed for husband as well.
We got medical alert pendants for the Alzheimer's patient and another one for her caregiver which would alert them that he was the caregiver for a dementia patient in case he was stricken and could not tell them himself.
In the early days, he would be able to leave her alone briefly and go shopping or for a walk and we worried about what would happen if he were hurt and she wouldn't know how to call for help. The medical alert pendant made everyone feel safer.
No ambulance crew would leave your spouse unattended, at home, once they learned there was a diagnosis of dementia.
I would post a BIG note on the refrigerator, as others have noted - or wherever medicine bottles are kept. We always look for medicine bottles!