Running Arrow Bill
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These are terrible things to happen...Nursing Homes are not the brighest star in the universe.
Is there any way you could post a list of medications she is on? Even though NO ONE posting on the board could legally give advice on her medications, I'm sure there are some medically trained individuals here that could at least "comment" on the possibility of her being on "too many" or "similar" medications... Would give you some more "questions" to ask her doctors and/or the nursing home "nurses?"...
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With the slapping incident by your father, my guess is that he is from the "old school" that feels someone should just "snap out of it"...also his frustration and perhaps mental state precludes his really understanding what is going on with his wife...
On a sidebar... I have a suspicion that these Nursing Home staffs (many of the facilities) have any number of cantankerous "old folks" that "give the staff problems"...the "treatment of the day" is often to administer psychotropic (tranquilizing) drugs to keep the peace and make their "patients" more "managable". [This was VERY true in the 1960's when I worked as a Psychologist in a State Psychiatric Hospital...that continued until the accredication agencies (e.g., HCFA and others) did some investigations and found "abuse of medications" going on...]
Is there any way you could post a list of medications she is on? Even though NO ONE posting on the board could legally give advice on her medications, I'm sure there are some medically trained individuals here that could at least "comment" on the possibility of her being on "too many" or "similar" medications... Would give you some more "questions" to ask her doctors and/or the nursing home "nurses?"...
;-)
With the slapping incident by your father, my guess is that he is from the "old school" that feels someone should just "snap out of it"...also his frustration and perhaps mental state precludes his really understanding what is going on with his wife...
On a sidebar... I have a suspicion that these Nursing Home staffs (many of the facilities) have any number of cantankerous "old folks" that "give the staff problems"...the "treatment of the day" is often to administer psychotropic (tranquilizing) drugs to keep the peace and make their "patients" more "managable". [This was VERY true in the 1960's when I worked as a Psychologist in a State Psychiatric Hospital...that continued until the accredication agencies (e.g., HCFA and others) did some investigations and found "abuse of medications" going on...]