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Most assisted living facilities have very little tolerance for any resident who gets violent, or even a little uppity. My mother-in-law pushed a nurse who was trying to get her to do something and they sent her to a psych hospital to get her meds “adjusted”. They like them drugged up and passive.

Actually I was just going to post that there is a reason why people are in long term facilities. I would not have allowed this treatment unless someone’s life was in danger. If they truly thought he had a gun he had to be contained though. The next step would have been to section him to a psy facility. Sometimes it is a medication adjustment need. It hasn’t got anything to do with chemical restraint. That’s illegal. No way he should have went to jail though IMO. What were they thinking?

My grandfather is dead now.

But he was a very proud man. Self made. Came from nothing. Made a fortune. Was too proud to use a cane, much less a walker or a wheelchair.

When a MALE nurse tried to force him to wear a diaper for the first time, that nurse dam near lost his teeth. My grand dad’s legs and back were shot, but his arms were still half way working and his hands were still strong as ever.

They shot him up so full of drugs right after that, he went into a coma and didn’t come out for a week. When he did come out, he wasn’t the same. He died two months later.

I’m thankful that he only endured care like that for as short a time as he did. I brought him a thermos once a week with a beer hidden in it for that two months.

I was proud to tears when I learned he tried to escape everyday he was there. And ashamed to tears I didn’t know about it earlier so I could do something about it.

Those scumbags at the assisted living center stole his expensive suits and his jewelry.

nonsense.....but they do want cordial people that can get around and are friendly with the other people......drugs are prescibed by doctors, not nurses or caretakers....

again, there is always the option of taking care of your own elders in your own home....

I can tell you a true story about a older guy in the hospital with another patient in the room...he was a nice enough old fella and he had a nice cane....

well, inside the cane was a SWORD and he nearly cut off the hand of a nurse with it, and what if he went after the other patient.....

we live in a funny world...no one wants to take care of the elderly least of all the children of that person, yet everyone wants to complain about the people that do take care of them....