Caring for & Living with Dementia: Tips & Resources
Last month, I wrote about the use physical restraint on grounds of keeping the patient safe and prevent falls. But that is not the only form of restraint that our society is using on seniors with dementia, there is yet another form of restraint known …
The use of restraints on confused seniors has always been very close to my heart. Back in the 1990s, as a young nursing student, I was taught to use physical restraints to tie patients to their hospital beds so that they could not walk about, …
In many countries, including Singapore and the United States, people with dementia are often drugged, physically restrained, neglected, subject to emotional abuse, and at times physical abuse too as the disease progresses. In this World Dementia Month, I like to remember my late-grandparents who had …
And so it happened AGAIN! I was at home and called mum, “Hello mummy, are you at home?” “Yes” came the reply on the other side of the phone line. “I’m coming over to your house right now to pass you some stuff that I …