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Elderly Couple Use 'Morse Code' to Escape Assisted Living Facility
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Posted on 05/01/2021 1:26:16 PM PDT by algore

The unnamed couple have dementia and Alzheimer's disease respectively. They successfully figured out the door code and walked out of the facility in Lebanon, Tennessee. They were found by a stranger about 30 minutes later and returned to the home. They were not harmed during the short excursion, which occurred on March 2.

The man later explained that he had "previously worked with Morse code in the military" and had used that experience to decipher the code to open the door leave, according to a report from the Tennessee Board For Licensing Health Care Facilities.

The facility in question, Elmcroft of Lebanon, has been fined $2,000 following the incident and has changed all the codes for its exits.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

read # 19. They stopped that different tone thing many years ago except for phones.


21 posted on 05/01/2021 1:49:42 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: algore

“I am glad they did not make it to walmart”

In Loveland, Colorado.


22 posted on 05/01/2021 1:49:53 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: lee martell
ABC Movie of the Week intro - 1972

The theme song was composed by Burt Bacharach, and is called Nikki. He wrote it for his daughter.

23 posted on 05/01/2021 1:51:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Openurmind

No, it isn’t a fact, unless you are his physician and are violating HIPAA. It’s a function of your creative thought.

Have you ever had close experience with anyone with Alzheimer’s?


24 posted on 05/01/2021 1:51:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: GreenLanternCorps

pretty sure that would be an enigma to me...


25 posted on 05/01/2021 1:52:11 PM PDT by algore
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To: Openurmind

there’s two sides to every story.
My husband would have been happy to bring his mother to live with us- but not lift a finger to take care of her.
That would have been on me- and no way I would have as she treated me so poorly when i was around her.
She went to a nursing home after getting herself into 135,000 in debt. She lost a paid off house. No one knows where the money went.
I don’t think i should have been punished because she lived irresponsibly.


26 posted on 05/01/2021 1:55:22 PM PDT by ronniesgal (Hillary wants to be Governor of New York!!)
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To: Kevmo

Some. Here in Hollywood, I spoke with an old dude who worked with mCQueen on Bullitt and was on the set of The Getaway’. The stories he told were “colorful”.


27 posted on 05/01/2021 1:56:10 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: BradyLS

Good one!


28 posted on 05/01/2021 1:58:24 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: Da Coyote

Exactly right. His Morse experience is a completely irrelevant bit of bulls#it that he fed to supposedly smart people and the fact that they bought it tells us all we need to know about who is mentally impaired here.


29 posted on 05/01/2021 2:03:27 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Openurmind

That has happened to me.

Because of depression after being forced to move to Canada, I began drinking.

Went into the hospital over a year ago. They finally discharged me; the wait was long because my husband was looking for a place for me to live.

At first, I will be the first to admit that I was not well.

But after a year of pretty much sobriety (husband took control of my bank accounts so I have little to spend), I am not the same person. I am capable of managing my work and affairs.

Getting my power back will be an uphill battle. Have to see a psychiatrist and “health care professionals”...who have my life in their hands.

Please pray for me. It’s my only hope.


30 posted on 05/01/2021 2:07:05 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
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To: Openurmind

That is true.., my sons SO made the decision to keep her mother in one after she had done a rehab after surgery.. There is no reason for the woman to be there, she is oriented and communicates well, needs a little help getting around, nothing that a home health aide couldnt handle.. ..but that would require the daughter to find help and make arragements and cover for the aide if she couldnt make it.. KARMA can be a B*tch


31 posted on 05/01/2021 2:08:51 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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To: algore

In her last year, my sister would call me to come pick up her and her friends so they could escape from memory care and go to Vegas. I would say “sure I will be right down” and then just continue whatever I was doing. She would forget her plans almost immediately.


32 posted on 05/01/2021 2:09:58 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: algore

So Bruce Wayne is in a nursing home now.🤔


33 posted on 05/01/2021 2:11:00 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: ronniesgal

Your reasoning is completely understandable


34 posted on 05/01/2021 2:15:25 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: GreenLanternCorps

D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E


35 posted on 05/01/2021 2:15:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: fishtank

Nowadays, they would use CGI or whatever it is to create that stunt. The millennials would not notice the difference.


36 posted on 05/01/2021 2:20:58 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: Openurmind
keypads emit the same tone on all keys, even on pin keys at the store for purchases. If they emit any at all. So he was obviously doing it another way. Lag between farther keys from closer keys maybe? One number key being a double tap same number?

Or he didn't want to let on how he did it and is pulling the reporter's leg.

37 posted on 05/01/2021 2:22:55 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: algore

Going from door code to morse code, probably because they both have the word code, is just the kind of mental divergence that would occur in someone with dementia.


38 posted on 05/01/2021 2:24:05 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Yeah, maybe he bribed an aide.


39 posted on 05/01/2021 2:28:41 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: proud American in Canada

Oh absolutely... Good to hear! Keep on keeping on! Good for you and hang in there! Never give up! :)


40 posted on 05/01/2021 2:33:10 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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