I Just don't understand why they can't segregate the rooms for males and females in nursing homes and memory care facilities. Have a common area where people eat, do activities where people can socialize but keep rooms off limits to the opposite sex. There are many ignored and unreported incidents of sexual abuse and rape in these places by other residents and staff.
Don't these places have paid staff who's job it is to check the resident's rooms throughout the day and night to make sure everyone is where they're supposed to be? To make sure people with Alzheimer's/dementia aren't getting into trouble or causing some?
My father was in a chain nursing home for a few months before he died. In one of their franchises in my state and elderly resident with dementia went into the room of his elderly "girlfriend" with dementia and strangled her to death in the middle of the day.
Honestly, anti-restraint policies need to be reconsidered in care facilities. If there are residents that are aggressive and mobile they are a threat to others and need to be locked in or drugged.
My mother does not have a lock on her door. I’m not sure she would be able to remember how to figure one out.
Plus, there is her crazy Fear of Fire. A lock might add to that loop of fear.
Just pondering this. How do locks work with dementia?
I’m quite sure that we agree that this subject is far too serious and important to describe in anecdotal terms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5iEo-s_6M
It's a sad reality that dementia can cause aggression, both sexual and physical. And we mustn't forget that bad people get old too, not all elders are sweet little old grannies and grandpas.
Several years back, I was appalled to read of a case where an aide had raped an elderly woman in a facility. It made me sick to my stomach. Here in my state awhile ago, a man entered a facility and murdered someone. He was a criminal and I can’t recall the exact circumstances. In happened in Baton Rouge which is slightly over an hour away from my city.
Overall, the care is good. Crimes of some sort will always be around.
The elderly and the children are absolutely the most vulnerable.
Before she moved into Memory Care, she lived in the same Assisted Living community in her own apartment which was also locked and off limits to other residents of either sex. She lived there from 2015 to 2019 with NO incidents of sexual abuse or rape, robbery or danger!
Why are you making across the board statements like this??