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[quote=Anonymous]It's unfortunate terminology that gets misused. There are elderly who can be incredibly verbally abusive and can lash out physically. When it's physical I suspect at one point it was allowed to physically restrain the person, but now that is no longer allowed. Now for both verbally and physically abusive behavior there are medications than can calm the person down.

It's a balance. The elder has rights and contrary to what some people will say, medicating is not taken likely and involves assessment and team input. The elder has many rights until those rights infringe on the rights of others from the poorly paid aide to the well paid, but overworked nurses and doctors. They have a right not to experience verbal and/or physical abuse.

My mother requires consistent medication to treat people respectfully, but she has the right to refuse and she does, so her workers are a revolving door. In more acute situations like hospital stays her verbal abuse escalates to the point nobody will work with her and she upsets the patients who hear her down the hall and the visitors, so she must be medicated to receive care. With sedatives and sometimes antipsychotics she can comply with and be receptive to treatment for her physical ailments.

As someone who suffered a very challenging childhood because my mother did not get psychiatric care, I am a firm believer in the importance of medication instead of allowing abuse.[/quote]

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