Do not blame yourself!

My stepmother was in the assisted living home, with a push-for-help button around her neck and got up in the night and broke her collarbone/shoulder and laid in her room's bathroom several hours before they found her (she didn't push the button) and the hospital couldn't fix it because her bones were too brittle (osteoporosis) and would have just crumbled if they'd tried to put pins in, etc.

When she was caring for her own mother, my stepmother learned from a doctor friend how to hold her mother's arm most effectively when walking with her. My stepmother was worried about her mother falling. Her doctor taught her the best method to hold her but explained that there was no way to catch/keep an older person from falling if it was going to happen; it happens too fast and it is just physically impossible for someone else to get in position to "catch" another.

{{{Seeker}}}