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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"...yet the staff thinks it's ok to shelter people. Not cool."

You're damn right it's "not cool" because it's called being protective and careful of who has access to vulnerable elderly people. What is the matter with YOU, thinking there is something wrong with THEM?

How in the world is the staff supposed to know you don't have ill intentions? They don't know anything about you. If you want to contact your friend, how about you write a card or letter and tell her you are thinking of her and providing her with your number. If you don't hear back from her son, then you have your answer. For whatever reason, they have limited her contact and if you don't make their cut there is nothing you can do about it.

Last but not least, I highly doubt you worked at a nursing facility. If you ever did you would know that people are called "residents" not "patients"[/quote]

Np here. Wow you're a nuts. So aggressive, crazy and uncalled for. Who hurt you.

For the record psycho in the 80s and 90s nursing home residents were called "patients."

Please take your medicine now.[/quote]

I worked as a CNA in the early 90s and they were residents at that time, though it seems like the switch was very new. I always thought (and still think) I'd throat punch anyone who called me a resident of a long term care facility. A resident is someone who's there to stay, whereas a patient gets treated and leaves. I'd much rather believe I was leaving, even if it weren't true. IME ancient experience OP, this is very much out of the norm, but times have changed, scams have changed and presumably policies along with it in order to protect the vulnerable. Though--if they're truly a "resident" of that place, then they wouldn't have access to their money anyway, so I'm not sure exactly what they'd be protecting.[/quote]

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