Has anyone had experience of elderly relatives in hospital - Dad was admitted with shingles lives with Alzheimer’s but it’s manageable with care at home and in the moderate stages (time confusion handling of finances etc gone) - since being in hospital he’s been administered with OxyContin and pregablin spends most of his time disorientated and far more confused asking why dead relatives haven’t been in and thinks he’s anywhere but hospital and also had issues with AKi since being in there (acute kidney injury) aka dehydration. I cannot fault the efforts of the drs and nurses but there are of course simply not enough - they seem to think my dad has the brain capacity to push a buzzer for help but the poor man is so delirious he hasn’t a clue where he is at the moment - his mental capacity has changed so much in a week. When I was told he managed to somehow get up from his bed and fall whilst heading to the bathroom and was possibly lying there for an hour my heart broke but I’m also whacking my head on a wall - I keep explaining that he is so confused he doesn’t know where he is but nothing is happening and it’s going to happen again - I don’t know why I’m posting really - just frustrated and feel like it’s the worse place he could be at the moment and it’s heart breaking - food just left in front of him which he sees but can’t manage alone now and fluid intake isn’t happening unless im there - it seriously feels like you have to be there constantly just to keep an eye on them and make sure they aren’t neglected - I’ve repeated repeated and repeated myself but my goodness it’s frustrating and upsetting up there