she couldn’t sing because she was sedated
My mother, who lived with dementia, was chemically and physically restrained every day for the…
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50 more pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
If you don’t have proof, you won’t be believed. Sometimes, even if you DO have…
who is responsible when people living with dementia are robbed of their dignity in long-term care?
Of the roughly seven hundred entries on seventy-five pages of nurses notes I was sent…
7-part palliative care plan works (for people AND cats)
About a month after Mom died in August 2016, her little kitty cat Pia Roma,…
20 questions to ask yourself about dementia-related incontinence
One of the first things we learn to do as toddlers is to eliminate our…
hail mary i need to pee
In March 2017, I wrote an open letter to Québec’s Minister of Health regarding the…
understaffed nursing homes force residents into incontinence
In summer 2009, author Lise Cloutier-Steele complained to the administrator of the long-term care facility…
crazy daughter weighs mom’s wet “nappy” and writes open letter to minister of health about it
“Rationing” incontinence products in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is not unique to the province of…
which way to the bathroom?
This is one in a series of vignettes based on the Nursing Home Behaviour Problem Scale (NHBPS),…