Campaign to band use of chemical coshing in dementia care

EL PASO: A dementia skilled nursing home “controlled” residents via injections of Haloperidol.

Despite having power of attorney over her husband’s affairs, it took his wife two months to get the skilled nursing home to stop dosing him. Only after lodging a Freedom of Information request could she later find out exactly what he had been given.

In January last year, less than three years after being admitted, his muscles weakened by a stroke, John choked to death during a meal…

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.

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