Q1. I would choose option 1 Dementia Nursing Team, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and consider carers. Eve would need the intervention of these health professionals as the Physiotherapists and OT would be able to review Eve’s ability/mobility and explain the risk of falls and also decide if she needs any mobility aids to prevent her frequent falls, the carers would be able to help her meet her ADL needs and also help improve her health and the Dementia Nursing team would be able to discuss with her family about the effects of Dementia on Eve as they do not seem to have a clear understanding about Dementia and its effect on Eve’s health.
Q2. I would choose option 2, Eve still has the capacity to make her own decisions with informed choices, neither of her children have POA and Eve has a right to make her decisions while she still has the capacity, if in the event that her mental capacity declines she would need to have a POA in place who could make decisions for Eve in her best interest.
Q3. I would choose option 2 No, this is not good. It is not supportive and is going to cause further complications within Eve’s house and life. I believe there are other ways to prevent Eve’s frequent falls like ensuring that her environs are trip/hazard free and stopping her going into the kitchen would only make her nutritional intake worse as she was already struggling with her nutritional intake at the moment
Q4. The audio messages left on the answering machine for Eve were not clear enough, I believe Eve would have struggled to comprehend any of the messages left on the answering machine and because of that might have caused increased confusion for Eve .
