Comments on: Antipsychotics Given Needlessly To Dementia Patients http://www.pharmalot.com/2009/11/antipsychotics-given-needlessly-to-dementia-patients/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:46:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: JaT http://www.pharmalot.com/2009/11/antipsychotics-given-needlessly-to-dementia-patients/#comment-445306 JaT Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:03:24 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=19807#comment-445306 This report is about what happens in the UK. You know, one of the countries we are admiring for their health care system. I'm not possitive if it is federal or state law, but where I am (where my mom is) in the USA, it is illegal to medicate seniors in nursing homes without their consent and without explaining the med to them. Any senior can refuse to be medicated. It is also illegal to use chemical restraints. Families have final say where treatments are concerned. We have very proactive state ombudsmen and have basically eliminated the use of large state run facilities to house our elderly. Your comment makes no sense, Palinthebutt. This report is about what happens in the UK. You know, one of the countries we are admiring for their health care system.

I’m not possitive if it is federal or state law, but where I am (where my mom is) in the USA, it is illegal to medicate seniors in nursing homes without their consent and without explaining the med to them. Any senior can refuse to be medicated. It is also illegal to use chemical restraints. Families have final say where treatments are concerned. We have very proactive state ombudsmen and have basically eliminated the use of large state run facilities to house our elderly.

Your comment makes no sense, Palinthebutt.

]]> By: Palinthebutt http://www.pharmalot.com/2009/11/antipsychotics-given-needlessly-to-dementia-patients/#comment-445019 Palinthebutt Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:09:06 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=19807#comment-445019 I find it "ironic"--but not surprising--that opponents of healthcare reform invoke "death panels" and similar when it is in their interest to fear-monger. But when the elderly are, quite literally, drugged to death, we hear squat. I find it “ironic”–but not surprising–that opponents of healthcare reform invoke “death panels” and similar when it is in their interest to fear-monger.

But when the elderly are, quite literally, drugged to death, we hear squat.

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