My wife has Alzheimers and fell two weeks ago and suffered a
compressed fracture in her back. She is home now in a hospital bed.
My problem is in the morning trying to get her out of bed. No one has taught
me the proper procedure to lesson her pain. She lays on her back when sleeping. She can walk to the bathroom and up and down steps with assistance.
Get all the help and advice, tricks and clues you can. Stenosis and fracturing and compression of vertebrae is very common in the elderly and causes a whole lot of pain. Sometimes bed rails help just from the standpoint of something to hang on to but they must be SOLID to help with this, not the slip in under the mattress types. I hope others have hints for you.
Does she have an alternating pressure mattress?
I hope you find help for both you and your wife.