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Reed Cosper's avatar

I am a bit late to comment here, but I should. Based on my two decades watching the interface between private nursing homes (which they all are) and the public mental health system, it was common to send facility residents to the hospital for psychiatric stabilization and then refuse to take them back.

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Nancy Green's avatar

As a nurse I worked in home care. I served patients who were completely paralyzed and lived at home. But dementia is much harder to manage at home, I’ve seen families exhaust themselves trying. The locked unit is necessary for people who wander. Even the most devoted family caregiver has to sleep sometimes and that’s when things happen. I hope John and his mother get answers and a fair resolution.

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Donna Chambers's avatar

Our family had issues with memory care for both our mom and later my sister. Both had demenia. We found that the facilities that advertise to be memory care are most of the time, simply nursing homes. The expectation has always been that there is an activities staff member as well as other staff trained in memory care. It seldom happened. They just want to fill beds and it is very frustrating. I sympathize with John.

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Susan Wright's avatar

That is so sad! And not backing up the law is dangerous. Like the laws to protect us don't matter anymore. That in itself has become an epidemic.

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Mary Sousa's avatar

Many of us have stories similar to this or with insurance companies refusing to pay for LTC anymore and having to provide care at home for a loved one and give up employment and take care of a family too. Healthcare is a mess!

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