This is in Missouri, in the United States.
I have an elderly grandparent with congenital heart failure, who lives on her own. She's been to the hospital twice in the last six weeks, and to a rehab facility. She's been given an oxygen supply and CPAP, the latter she refuses to use. We've been checking up on her more frequently since she was discharged from the hospital last week. She's tripped and fallen once, though with no injury.
I found today that she had soiled her bed and her chairs; that she was having trouble swallowing her pills; that she was taking her pills at the wrong time; and that she seems kind of out of it, like not so alert as she usually is.
So it looks clear to me that she can't live on her own, and we--her family--literally can't provide the care she needs, starting right now. We have no medical training, and we all have jobs; we're not available 24/7, and I think that's what she needs now, because she could trip at any time, and she needs assistance with daily activities like going to the bathroom.
My understanding of the way things would ideally work is that she would go to a hospital, where she would receive immediate care while a nursing home or something is arranged with the assistance of the hospital's social workers.
She's not in any immediate danger, though, and I'm told that a hospital would just discharge after a few hours. I'm trying to get ahold of her doctor, but he's out until 3rd, and he hasn't responded to the emergency message I left for him.
So I don't know what to do. She needs care today that her family can't give her, and there doesn't appear to be any place at all that can help. Is there something I'm not aware of that I should be?
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