94-Year-Old Atlanta Woman Arrested, Shackled To Bed, Says Family - News Story - WSB Atlanta
After working in a nursing home for a few weeks, a very good one by nursing home standards, I can say with conviction, that they should be outlawed. Warehousing our unwanted elderly until they die is not something a mature and affluent society tolerates.
They should be hospitalized, or provided with sufficient home care, the end.
And you're agree with me if you'd watched great grandmothers forced to sleep sitting up in their wheel chairs just because the home wants everyone to eat and sleep at the same time.
The home I'm speaking of is Woodland Oaks in Ashland Kentucky.
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ATLANTA -- Family members are outraged after they said their 94-year-old relative was arrested and shackled to a bed at Grady Hospital.
Fran Daniel said her mother, who suffers from dementia, was charged with assaulting her roommate at a metro Atlanta nursing home.
The nursing home said the 80-pound elderly woman physically attacked her roommate.
The nursing home said it asked the roommate's family if they wanted to press charges and that's when police were called.
Garreau was released on bond.
Her family is searching for another nursing home.
After working in a nursing home for a few weeks, a very good one by nursing home standards, I can say with conviction, that they should be outlawed. Warehousing our unwanted elderly until they die is not something a mature and affluent society tolerates.
They should be hospitalized, or provided with sufficient home care, the end.
And you're agree with me if you'd watched great grandmothers forced to sleep sitting up in their wheel chairs just because the home wants everyone to eat and sleep at the same time.
The home I'm speaking of is Woodland Oaks in Ashland Kentucky.
Read here for more.
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