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http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/north_central/peru-police-tase-alzheimer-patient?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WISHTV_News+%28WISHTV.com+|+Indianapolis%2C+IN+-+News%29
Looking past the liberal sensationalism of the article, I really see nothing wrong with the Officers actions.
Now where i do see the problem, the same problem i see in many NH, as Im sure most of you do, Is staff, on a locked Alzheimer's unit, calling police for an increasingly aggressive and combative patient. Last time I check, that is generally what happens with Alzheimer's patients. If the staff cannot be expected to actually manage patients, outside of making sure they eat, then something needs to be reevaluated. You cannot pass blame on Officers which shouldn't have been there in the First place.
I saw it posted in another thread earlier, but I wasn't around in the days where NH's were "skilled". All I see now is death farms where the only skill is collecting medicare checks. /rant
Looking past the liberal sensationalism of the article, I really see nothing wrong with the Officers actions.
Now where i do see the problem, the same problem i see in many NH, as Im sure most of you do, Is staff, on a locked Alzheimer's unit, calling police for an increasingly aggressive and combative patient. Last time I check, that is generally what happens with Alzheimer's patients. If the staff cannot be expected to actually manage patients, outside of making sure they eat, then something needs to be reevaluated. You cannot pass blame on Officers which shouldn't have been there in the First place.
I saw it posted in another thread earlier, but I wasn't around in the days where NH's were "skilled". All I see now is death farms where the only skill is collecting medicare checks. /rant