If you don’t have proof, you won’t be believed. Sometimes, even if you DO have proof, you are not believed. I learned that when I went to court to try to get control of my mother’s care in early 2014. I had lots of proof, but I still lost. I was devastated. But the loss… Continue reading 50 more pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
My mom was a go-getter, she loved to be on the move. Even when she had been living with advancing Alzheimer disease for several years, she told me clearly and directly that she wanted to “keep going.” That was her way. She didn’t want to be sitting and sleeping and missing out on living. Sadly,… Continue reading 25 pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
Actually, there are probably thousands of reasons, or maybe even tens of thousands, but there are at least five hundred that I know of — each representing someone who once was, and perhaps still is, a living, breathing human being who was denied or is being denied his or her rights. Reason #1 The number… Continue reading 500+ reasons we need to do something about widespread neglect and abuse in long-term care in canada (and around the world)
In this second of two guest blog posts, soprano, performer, recording artist and soon-to-be author Joy Dey shares her experience of dementia care in the UK, where her mum Winnifred was neglected in three separate care homes. The first post is here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My mum Winifred was neglected in three separate care homes between 2013… Continue reading 15 examples of neglect & abuse that would have been captured on cctv in winifred’s care homes
On July 10, 2018, the Quebec Council for the Protection of Patients and co-plaintiff Daniel Pilote (who is a long-term care resident in Quebec), filed an application for a class-action lawsuit that targets care facilities (CHSLDs) in Quebec, Canada (more here). Larochelle Avocats, the lawyers taking the case forward, list 19 potential breaches of the Quebec… Continue reading 19 ltc human rights abuses i hope quebec will have to pay for
The video is clear, and the care workers’ words are unmistakable: “I love how you throw him,” one says to the other. “I used to throw people like that.” She’s talking about the way her colleague has tossed 89-year-old Hussein Younes into a bed at Autumnwood of Livonia, a Michigan nursing home. The abuse was… Continue reading videos don’t lie about abuse, but people do
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, a physical restraint is “any manual method, or any physical or mechanical device, material or equipment attached or adjacent to the person’s body that the person cannot remove easily and that restricts the person’s freedom of movement or normal access to his or her body. It is… Continue reading hidden restraints: hidden abuse
Ontario Personal Support Worker (PSW) Association President Miranda Ferrier told CityNewsToronto that she has seen “tonnes of abuse,” and that ongoing abuse in institutions is one of the main reasons for setting up the association, which has repeatedly called on the Ontario provincial government to regulate PSWs. Watch the three-minute interview prompted by grandson Ran… Continue reading president of PSW association says she has seen “tonnes of abuse”
I’m re-blogging this article with the express permission of the author Dr. Michael A. Carome, Director, Health Research Group. It originally appeared in Public Citizen’s online Health Letter in 2015 (see http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6520). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Carome wrote: The warning, written in bolded letters and placed in a black-bordered box at the front of the labeling… Continue reading misprescribing antipsychotic drugs to elderly dementia patients is an outrage. it’s also elder abuse.
Arthur Ross Jones died in excruciating pain because workers at the long-term care facility where he resided failed to provide the care he needed after a fall. Like many cases of elder abuse, this one may have gone unnoticed had daughter Lori Dekervor not found (almost by accident) a stinking, gaping, infected hole at the base of her… Continue reading families turned fighters take on ltc goliath revera for elder abuse
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