United States: Oversedation in Nursing Homes

[@vonhanshaw5575]

Thank you for exposing this epidemic......

[@seankelly5223]

same happens here in Australia, i live in a nursing home in a younger onset cottage, most od the residents in my cottage sleep all day

[@diannh2894]

I'm so sorry

[@sarahwilliams9548]

Good morning Sean Kelly sorry for that I will love to make friend with you and make you happy

[@sofiapoutasi6274]

This is very scary, I rather looking after my parents than the care by others I don't know.

[@johnpatterson678]

This is so sad.

[@TaketheSeal777]

As Being as Certified Nurse Assistant for 35 years There's nothing I have Not seen when giving Residents Morphine to ease they're pain but really Morphine is the Fastest way to Takes Em Out!! CHECK ON YOUR LOVE ONE'S ‼️

[@jasonjames4254]

Thank you for your years of service caring for the elderly. I personally, would rather be kept relatively pain free and die early, rather than live longer in agonizing pain and emotional distress.

[@sheraarehs]

I caught the assisted living facility giving my grandmother trazadone when her only issues are a recent fall that resulted in a broken hip and hip replacement and short term memory loss. I'm livid about it.

[@snoopiewolf6535]

Why can’t their children take care of them

[@UserNameRedacted-d7u]

But what if they throw poo

[@deniseweber1339]

Then you supervise, engage, and this can happen even on the meds. Staffing and proper training on behavior management . It's a system failure.

[@Incredible_629]

In California - They tried to dope my cousin to death - I yelled to the top of my lungs - you will be held accountable for this - they moved her - got rid of her - I'm on it - thank you for this video. I won't have it.

[@mojojeinxs9960]

Well the other side of not medicating having them going up and down the hallway all day walking into other residents rooms being very combative and confrontational and hitting people staff and other residents being in a constant agitated state. A danger to themselves and others. Staff can not be in danger of physical harm I have been punched had things thrown at me. People with dementia brains no longer function properly so you can't expect them to be normal.

[@Aaron_R]

Agreed. I've seen it. My Dad was one of those people constantly agitated. They put him on meds and he was better.

[@beansthecat8787]

I'm about to get my CNA license and seeing all of this for myself at the nursing home I work at. I say medicate them, at least half of them sundown and that agitates the other half and it makes it so much harder on the staff to give quality care.​@@Aaron_R

[@jasonjames4254]

Would you rather have these patients experiencing constant anxiety and committing self harm or assaulting staff? The reason their families put them in the nursing home in the first place is because their behaviors were too difficult to manage at home. I went through all of this with my mother. Without medication she had constant anxiety. She would literally shriek and wail at the top of her lungs for hours on end. There was nothing physically wrong with her. It was all emotional distress caused by her dementia. There is no magic solution. Sometimes medication is the only tool available to keep them relatively calm and peaceful. Using medication was by far the lessor of two evils.

[@cvalner]

Is there a way to refuse antipsychotic drugs on your entry form before even entering a nursing home? Think I'd try to insist on that before a nursing home gets any of my LTC insurance dollars. I'm a little amazed at how young some of these folks were when they went into a nursing home. My mom went first into independent living (where we used her LTC insurance to pay for an occasional helper), then assisted living, and finally to a nursing home for about 6 months at age 86. She was alert until she went into hospice the final week before her death.

[@frenchgemini6686]

In Minnesota we have a legal form people can fill out called a Health Care Directive that can prevent this from happening. Creating and enforcing such forms being acted through is the challenge.

[@frenchgemini6686]

Sorry about the loss of your Mom.

[@lisam4066]

Everybody has a legal right to refuse medication & don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[@Pernc2008]

Watch out though, in Canada people with dementia were also drugged, when they stopped sedating them because of so many complaints then resident elderly abuse went way up. One man died from a attack of another man because some of them become violent. There needs to be some middle ground here, maybe they need sedated, but not so sedated or else what do you do?

[@Horsy2345680]

That's part of being a nurse as well as a nurses assistant. It is part if their job to understand the residents as well as provide the right amount of care/medications for each resident as an individual.

[@getoffyourbutt.3654]

No

[@wmd40]

the nursing home in that case was found to be abusive and neglected their patients. we have had nursing homes for decades. this stuff happens and it's ridiculous to act like you're not expected to deal with it if it's part of your job. like you're saying you refuse to deal with a major part of your job. people are hard to deal with and exist in the physical world! so sometimes you have to act physically. they don't want to actually care for these people. that's the issue. it's bullshit and not okay. if those people do not want to do the job, then GET OUT AND LET SOMEONE WITH COMPASSION DO THE JOB. this is the same BS that police try to say! they act like it's okay to not do their jobs for some reason and EVERYONE accepts it even though it literally kills people. please go work any other job and then tell them you can't do the biggest part of your job bc you could get hurt. go work at McDonald's and tell them that you don't want to work the counter bc customers scream at you. yeah I'm sure that will go well. and those people don't even have a right to be mean!!! people with dementia have no control and need help ffs

[@markalexander3659]

This is a gross violation of human rights. Being drugged to the point where you can't even communicate with people must be terrifying.

[@leiaviewor8414]

It takes an eagle eye to spot tricky psychiatrist! When I was a caregiver for my mom I contested, my mom has Dementia & sundowners syndrome, not schizophrenia. Y, I would ask, are you wanting to give her anti-psych meds for Dementia? They had no answer, 3 different psychiatrist, different occasions. The nurses would say that my mom hallucinates; I persuaded them to call me when that happened, usually at sundown. I figured out if I went with whatever she was seeing she would calm down & feel reassured. Later I realized she was having a bad reaction to the Alzheimers medication. When we got her off of it the hallucinations stopped. The fight was real but worth fighting!

[@angelastars27]

Some of the most evil happens in nursing homes under a nurses care.

[@cfbmoo1]

Maybe if we didn't have a for profit healthcare industry we wouldn't have staffing and pay problems we do now that keep people from working at this places. The private equity and investment companies buying up all these places to hoover up peoples wealth for rates like $10K+ a month aren't putting it in to staffing or even the facilities a lot of times. It goes right to the top where the shareholders are usually cause that's all they really care about.

[@getoffyourbutt.3654]

Are you sure that they have no good reason depriving people of these rights I mean come on how how can you say that do you know how difficult it is working in a nursing home imagine having a restraint free environment having restraints. Band bring back physical restaurants. !!

[@maeb8127]

What happened to compassion & kindness🥺

[@kadykincaid4697]

I’ve worked in this field for 9 yrs currently in assisting living dementia residents can’t give consent and need these kinds of medication because if not they are up all night screaming cursing falling crawling on the floor keep getting up putting themselves at risk for falls we have a current resident that is like that in her file it states she doesn’t have dementia she is just depressed then y the hell is she in the facility because we are not psychiatrist lately the lady has slept through the night no problem now that she’s on something I rather her on the drugs then putting her life and our facility at risk take ur family home if u don’t like it

[@freddiecordova4343]

@UCmsi9BYVq0E_r83NWPzDIkQ when you find yourself in prison don’t cry bitch

[@phish_1]

Can doctors create an injection to kill those who suffers?

[@belindawalls3261]

THIS IS WHY I BOUGHT MY LOVE ONES HOME FROM THE NURSING HOME. I TOOK CARE OF THEM MYSELF WITH GODS HELP!!!!

[@c.s3028]

I survive a traumatic expreience with my mother. I have been praying that someones will speak on this but unfortunately there are more tragic incidents that has happen and is happenimg now

[@shannonletourneau5692]

This makes me so sick how could people due this to a person that can be grandparents wow just cold hearted. I worked in a nursing home for 3 to 4 months i worked mid shift on a locked down unit it was a altimeter unit i would come in around 4pm getting ready to give dinner some of the people would be so wet and smelled so.bad they hadn't changed them all day beds weren't made no.showers no one even tryed to climb thier hair there are something that take two people to do. So bad no one wanted to work bunch of sorry motherfuckers the only thing i kept saying one day they will have to answer for themselves god dont play prayers go out to the patient's and thier familys and the very few workers that works.😷🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@c.s3028]

Human rights if you every want to interview me about this injustice please let me know.....about what happen with my.love one .

[@wanderingsoul7719]

Many people in nursing homes do not have dementia. My daughter is black, disabled. Cerebral palsy. Non walking and non verbal. She was taken under guardianship by Kent county in Michigan. They stated it was against the law because I left the state without their permission.

[@HAPILIPINIM]

SHAMEFUL

[@MikeKaye-d3o]

This is happening to me and I have schizophrenia they just keep giving me pills and telling me to "use my coping skills" I am 26 but I feel like I am dying from the medication and it's not helping

[@frenchgemini6686]

This happened to me. Anti-psychotics were forced on me through a Jarvis Order in Minnesota and it was a living nightmare.

[@lauribricker9439]

That's what happened to me, I was forced to take Mellaril when I was a little girl, it made me as big as a house!

[@christinab.2864]

That really sad. I would never treat my grandparents in the matter.

[@lauribricker9439]

Is a Jarvis Order like Kendra's Law (N.Y.), Laura's Law (CA.), or the Baker Act (FL)?

[@frenchgemini6686]

@@lauribricker9439 yes a Minnesota Jarvis Order is similar to the above laws you stated. It is not the right path for vulnerable people in my personal opinion.

[@frenchgemini6686]

@@lauribricker9439 psyche meds have cause me also to become overweight, high cholesterol, now my doctor says I might develop diabetes from my psyche meds. Fuck them

[@merilynwinter731]

Sad that this happens. But I have a friend who is a drug addict and LOVES her HOME Lots of drugs for FREE..

[@GrannyRalls]

Nothing has changed, Folks! Watched my family be tricked by so-called nursing home/rehab facility staff persons into putting my mother into hospice and then be tricked into stripping away the drugs she actually needed and be given 3 antipsychotics at one for the last 10 months of her life after being stolen from her life taken 1500 miles away from those who loved her very much until she died a horrendous death choking on blood clots she was coughing up thanks to their putting her into a bed and not allowing her to get any exercise and the toxicology results said she had sepsis from an horrendous case of untreated pneumonia, and elevate anti-psychotic meds and a LETHAL level of XANAX. Clearly, my sister rationalized allowing these things to occur.

[@diannh2894]

These nursing homes are disgusting

[@kayhumph9109]

Sad

[@ScreamTatumRiley]

That don’t make sense …are u her legal guardian?

[@TheMimiof7]

My sister is 73 years old with dementia. She is currently in a memory care facility. I was asked if their dr could treat my sister with her medications and I said no. I signed documents that I would take her to every appt that she needs. This way, their dr cannot prescribe any of these drugs.

[@cockaheuck1534]

I am not rooting for physical restraints back the 1980s & back. But of the 2 evils. Antipsychotic drugs are the worst of the evils

[@tutsecret499]

It's better physical restraints that won't hurt them comparing to the other evil

[@frenchgemini6686]

Agreed. I would prefer to keep my mind over my body, like the late astro-physicist Stephen Hawking.

[@maretvilla1531]

Psychotic drugs also turned kids into drugged up depressed psychos. All teenage shooters were on some psychotic drugs and yet they refused to make the connection. Drug companies would spread evil in the name of profit. Even with this p landemic, this won't end without the say of big pharma and their cohorts.

[@cockaheuck1534]

They say wiping a diaper in a patience is so evil. I can tolerate that. Even setant physical restraints. But I really appose to antipychotic drugs 100 percent. It makes all the physical restraint all through the 1960' to 1980's look like a pick nick .