Residents of a long-term care facility have the right to freedom from chemical restraints. A chemical restraint is given for a purpose other than it’s intended use, and given for punishment, coercion, ...

Residents of a long-term care facility have the right to freedom from chemical restraints. A chemical restraint is given for a purpose other than it’s intended use, and given for punishment, coercion, ...

For years, doctors prescribed three powerful anti-psychotic drugs to a severely developmentally disabled woman who was raped while living in an Orlando group home. A former caretaker for the rape ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

While the definitions of "seclusion" and "chemical restraint" are quite straightforward in these administrative rules, Craig Fitch, acting director of the Montana Mental Disabilities Board of Visitors ...

Dr Juanita Breen (previously Westbury) received $3.2M of funding through the University of Tasmania from the Department of Health from 2008/9 and 2013-2016 to develop, run and evaluate the 'Reducing ...

WARM SPRINGS, Mont. — The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, the state’s only public adult psychiatric facility, is continuing to see high staff vacancies, budget deficits, and shortfalls in ...

Decubitus ulcers caused by physical restraints and chemical restraints both cause the injured person to become dependent on the nursing staff We see no distinction between Stage III or Stage IV ...

This year I have interviewed dozens of people who have told me how aged care facilities drugged their parents, grandparents, husbands, wives and neighbours. We’d sit down in someone’s home, or in an ...

(Sydney) – Australia’s health and aged care ministers should immediately revise an aged care regulation to prohibit chemical restraint, Human Rights Watch and Aged & Disability Advocacy Australia said ...