They are watching out for Elder Abuse. I wouln’t let it bother me.
Sorry your mom fell, and glad she is recovering.
I ended up in the ER last week with an injury and the nurse asked me if I felt safe at home right in front of my husband. It made me laugh. He is a big joker so it was a good thing he didn’t make a funny remark about causing my accident.
With all the elder abuse going on these days, the questioning was probably routine. I would just let it go. Sorry you had to go through that.
Challenge anything that is not accurate. Make them fix the report.
Inaccuracies in reports become embedded errors and will affect any future dealings the authorities have with both you and your mother.
Never let an accurate report stand.
First of all, WOW congratulations to your mom for living such a long life!
I would be infuriated at the accusations so don’t know what I would do, but I see other advice here is to let it go. That’s hard to do.
I had an earlier post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3449982/posts
where a fire dept broke into a man’s home looking for victims. His home was not on fire but was near a very small fire. In the home they find an alarm clock that looks like dynamite and a clock. Turns out it was a novelty clock that freaked out the firefighters and brought out the bomb squad.
It begs the question, as does your incident, to what extent does the fire department act as an agent of the police? I do not think this is really legal.
I do not work with vets who have close ties with animal control, humane society, or work for rescues for the same reason. they are do gooders who will cut your throat in a heart beat.
Sorry. Did not mean to imply that you were a democrat.
Glad to hear your mom is ok. 101? give her a hug for me. Fire/EMT see a lot of things and their concern is real despite the apparent ham-handed follow up. Count your blessings.
Sorry to hear about your mom’s misfortune.
Send a nice thank you note to the fire station.
Let it go, sounds like you have a spectacular mom. But, lets just say someone WAS drunk at 10:30 in the morning, so what? Absolutely no one’s business and what were they going to do arrest your mom for being too old to drink, or maybe driving a house while intoxicated?
Recommend you just let it go and be glad your Mother is all right. Sometimes well meaning people do stupid things. The police came, saw that everything was OK and that’s the end of it, let it be the end of it.
A welfare check probably means a nosey neighbor, a friend, or another family member called in so the police would stop by and check on her. If they checked and found nothing wrong just let it go. It’s SOP for them. They’re just following orders from dispatch. After they receive a welfare call they’re bound to follow-up. To avoid lawsuits mainly.
A welfare check probably means a nosey neighbor, a friend, or another family member called in so the police would stop by and check on her. If they checked and found nothing wrong just let it go. It’s SOP for them. They’re just following orders from dispatch. After they receive a welfare call they’re bound to follow-up. To avoid lawsuits mainly.
In your case it was EMS obviously.
Since Dec. 2012 I have lost my Dad (93), Niece (49), Mom (92) and my son (44) this past November. I would spend all my time and energy interacting with my Mom and laughing about the story. Life is too short and time so limited with loved ones. Sometimes just a few years can take away so many and things are never the same. You are lucky she’s okay and my best to her.
Usually this is by hospital social workers or visiting nurses, but if it was a weekend, they might have asked the cops. Ditto if it was a dangerous neighborhood.
Usually I can smell one beer on the breath of a person. So it doesn't mean someone was drunk.
And if it was on a weekend, especially a holiday weekend, nearly everyone has alcohol on the breath, so better safe than sorry.
Don't sue: If you saw the amount of abuse and neglect we see in the hospital, you would thank them for caring.
I was lucky enough to work in a small town, so we knew most of our “customers” and often just asked a reliable relative to check in on them. Now with privacy laws, I'm not sure that is legal...
More likely EMT suspected elder abuse and they used the “welfare check” and “drinking” as a ruse to get in. My 2-1/ 2 year old daughter took an accidental head-first spill out of her stroller and I was given tne third-degree for the longest time in the ambulance and at the hospital.
What’s the chance your mom jokingly said something like, “I’m gonna have to give up that Brandy in the morning with my eggs” when she was in the ambulance?
Don't be ticked off.
Wouldn't hurt to talk to an attorney though. Some busybody bureaucrat could make your life miserable.
Let it go.
Be glad they didn’t ask you or mom if you have *guns* in the house.
Although I understand your concern; I probably would have said something that would have escalated the visit, had it been me. ;(
Bless you for looking after her. You deserve a lot of praise for that. God Bless.
I would let it go. Unless they insist on getting Social Services involved. As the wife of a firefighter/paramedic if they really thought something was wrong, they would have called the police when they came to your house at 10:30. Maybe you were just nervous because your mom was hurt and one guy had a question on the way you answered so the police just checked to make sure everything was alright. If you want to, call and ask for their report or even come right out and ask if there was a problem. They are usually quite accommodating if you just ask, they’re just regular people, too. It sounds like someone maybe over reacted but to me it’s understandable because my husband goes to so many calls where he encounters really abusive people. It still really bothers him that they went to a call and patched up a kid, believed the parents that he had just fallen, and the following week were back at the same house where the father had killed the kid. He wracks his brain wondering how he missed that. That was over 10 years ago.
Lawyers cost a fortune; avoid them whenever possible.