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My husband was a prominent, well-respected, highly educated person.
I feel terrible that you resort to restraining him in the bed. I think
it makes him more disoriented and combative. But I don’t want
him too sedated either. Some of the medicine makes him sleep all the
time. I know his Alzheimer’s disease makes him hard to care
for, but isn’t there something we can do? |
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interdisciplinary team at a nursing home is meeting with the wife
of Mr. Jordan, an 87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. Mrs. Jordan
is concerned that he is not being treated respectfully or with the
appropriate care and concern.