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Anesthesia is very difficult on elderly people and they don't often bounce back to where they were prior to the anesthesia. I think she'll need to be assessed for a new baseline.

And I agree with Barb. Get her pain under control. That can only help.
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Have they got the UTI's under control? Do you have a gerontologist on her medical team?
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Jeff, how are things going with your mom today?
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She's in pain from a compression fracture. Start out by treating the pain (patches, injections, kyphoplasty) and see if she comes back to baseline.

Dementia patients are notoriously bad at reporting pain.
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