After finishing the quick tutorial, I can tell you that my favorite tip was #6: Use technology to your advantage. Here's how it worked for me this week:
My mother is very sick and in ICU and has been there for several weeks. While she was sedated, several family members visited her, but, of course she was asleep. When she woke up, we were able to show her the people who had visited her in her hospital room. Also, I took pictures of all the equipment used for her care; the respirator machine, her various IVs, even her catheter tubes. When she had questions about where all the tubes and the hoses connected to her were going, I was able to show her where they went and how they were helping her. Most of her machines are behind her head, so she doesn't know what they look like or how they work. But I was able to describe them to her as she looked at the pictures. Because the camera is digital, I could take more pictures and show them to her immediately.
Our next step is to print the pictures of family and friends on self-adhesive paper and post them all over her hospital room. We'll wait a little, since she is due to get out of ICU soon.
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