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it’s sad

My Alzheimer's Story

Natalia Loskutova, Director of Evaluation at American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), knows what she’s talking about. Her professional interests include translational research, neuroscience, and aging especially in the relationship between cognitive and physical decline in dementia. Her current research interest is in cognitive and non-cognitive changes in early/pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s’ disease, disease predecessor, early detection and disease progression.

After reading “against my wishes and against her will” Loskutova commented: 

“It is very sad that despite story after story of the victims of this approach and plentiful research evidence of the harms resulting from the use of several medication classes in persons with dementia that these practices still exist and, most disappointingly, are accepted by many.

You’re right Natalia, it is sad.
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don’t hide behind safety

My Alzheimer's Story

Scottish social care trainer Derek O’Hagan saw the value in the videos documenting Mom’s experience with “hidden” physical restraints and is now using them to give care home staff a different perspective on fall risks and using restraints. He says the outcome has been “very positive.”

O’Hagan also says: 

“I believe we hide behind the word safety, I don’t always blame staff but more so the situation, support for older people is extremely underfunded and my opinion undervalued. The video of your mum is not even subtle, it is full on restraint that will be dressed up as ‘safety’ or ‘falls risk’. What we don’t do is talk about how we could make it safe; we just say it is not safe and accept it. Care for the elderly needs to change, here in Scotland I have written to our government asking how this can be done, and when I deliver training in care homes this is an area I focus on. I personally think large care homes should be closed and smaller more person-centred homes opened, even though it may be slightly less cost-effective.”

Spot on Derek!
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