‘Scared to death’: Nurses & residents confront rampant violence in dementia care facilities https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/081724_dementia_violence/scared-death-nurses-residents-confront-rampant-violence-dementia-care-facilities/
More than 900,000 people with Alzheimer’s or other types of dementia reside in nursing homes and assisted living centers, and while clashes can be too unpredictable to prevent, the chance of altercations increases when memory care homes admit and retain residents they can’t manage.
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@TucsonSentinel TWW: In the darkness you can find a path toward the vision of light and hope that draws us forward. *When M went to care it was war, mentally and emotionally. Her size strength and elaborate accusations scared the staff to the point where they treated her only in groups of three. When they called for help I would try to apologize and tell her to back off but would not allow sedation. Dark times and then like a switch she became docile and died. OWOP
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I thought patients were being drugged into zombitude at the first sign of aggression.