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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nursing home did the right thing as it has a duty to protect its patients/residents and workers from violence.[/quote]
No they didn't.  That was just the easiest thing for them.  They needed to find an alternative placement.  He can't be home.  That's not safe for him or his family.[/quote]

Imagine your loved one in a nursing home, and a violent person wanders into your loved one's room, in the middle of the night.   When staff tries to protect your loved one by removing the violent man, he assaults them, sending one to the ER.

Would you be ok with this violent person remaining in the same facility as your loved one?[/quote]

I see what you’re trying to do, but where are people like him supposed to go? Take him home, wait until he wanders off because it’s impossible to monitor someone by yourself 24/7, and he does cold and shirtless in a ditch? He is ill. He is not a “violent person”. He should never have been able to wander in the middle of the night unsupervised if the appropriate safety measures were in place, but this facility refused to do anything extra and was dragging their feet on getting him moved somewhere more suitable.[/quote]

DP. Unless you are paying for 1:1 care or restraints have been approved, there is no way to have eyes on him all the time. And he was not permitted to wander. Staff found him and attempted to get him where he belonged.

Facilities cannot magically make placements appear. If something was available and they didn’t move him, that would be a different story but that’s isn’t what OP conveyed.

And whether he is ill or not, he is violent just like people who have a mental illness are sometimes violent. And, by entering the rooms of vulnerable people, he is a danger to others. As I said upthread, what happens to violent people is commitment to psych facilities, including violent people with dementia.

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Depending on the state they do not allow restraints.  [/quote]

Which states don't allow restraints for a violent individual in a hospital?  I'm familiar with ones who have pretty strict regulations, but I wasn't aware of any states where it wasn't allowed at all.  [/quote]

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