Elderly dementia patient resists caregiver help after fall, Cornelia GA
Medical EmergencyEmergency services responded to near Barry Street for an elderly patient with dementia who fell and was resisting assistance from the caregiver. Law enforcement and EMS provided help to manage the patient's combative behavior and assist in safely placing the patient back in bed.
Audio|Source: Habersham County Emergency Services
03:33
Transcript:
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Dispatch, 212? Dispatch, 212.
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Both of us is, it's going to be near Barry Street.
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We are sending M-O-in at this time.
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The patient may be combative, just want an extra help on things.
00:31
Your case is (number withheld), okay, (number withheld).
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Okay, (number withheld).
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Yes,
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one.
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I just need the assistance getting back into his bed.
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We're sending law enforcement of the caller states the patient has dementia and was not allowing the caller to help him up.
00:57
I don't know if the patient's got to be combative or not.
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182 is clear.
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2.20 just passed myself and 212, 10.23.
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30 dispatch, I'm 23 at 1070, I don't see a .
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if it's . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He got down a little further and maybe closer to Zebraison.
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He was advising where George Moth ends and Del Ramsey begins.
02:04
So he's going to be down there with pavement turns to loop.
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Tepardley, so we're going to call me sometime.
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Tell me.
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Yes, that's one, buddy.
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He's arriving to come down about 100 yards past the pavement where the pavement ends, and he'll be sitting there waiting on you.
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Hello.
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Probably, good age, that's seven.
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Great.
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And you do this way.
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Yeah.
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You have a...
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You have a...
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that I'm not too much for some pressure.
02:55
Okay. Okay.
03:14
So there's mid two, mid two, respond to near Barry Street, near Barry Street.
03:19
The same of a lift assist in a match (number withheld).
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Red 2nd, 2nd.
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Red 2 is clear in the rope.
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