There was some confusion with commentators regarding bed rest for hip fractures. People do not really understand why their grandparents will wither away in their own bed with the best care from loving children.
I will explain. In older adults, bed rest each day consumes about 5% of muscle strength. If the grandmother lies down for several days, and then she breaks something and wants to walk, then she will most likely fall and can break her head.
Delirium often begins from bed rest. Old people behave like crazy, and this also shortens life.
Delirium occurs simply from pain or, for example, due to loss of orientation in the time of day. That is, if the grandfather is lying in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and a round-the-clock night light, this can greatly affect his psyche.
A lot of other drugs provoke delirium. Even the usual valerian.
Bed sores often occur in bedridden patients, and an infection that ends badly settles on them.
From a forced position and muscle weakness, there is pneumonia, which also does not have a very good effect on life expectancy. Even just feeding grandfathers not in bed, but sitting in a chair, already greatly reduces the risk of developing pneumonia.
From bed rest, blood clots form in the veins, which can cause fatal pulmonary embolism.
So it turns out that elderly parents need to be lifted out of bed whenever possible. Encourage them to do everything they can on their own.
Love and care are shown not in spoon-feeding and kissing on the forehead, but in preventing old people from rotting alive from ulcers on the ass. For this, the elderly dad and mom need to be lifted and made to move. For some reason, this does not reach the majority of readers.
Do you feel sorry for grandfathers and grandmothers?
