willbeurdaddy
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What do you expect with a diagnosis of dementia?
Confusion, duh. Did I say she should not have been?
Of COURSE she didnt trust Drs, she didnt trust anyone she didnt remember.
So it wasn't the lack of health care that was the problem, which is what I said.
The health care system failed both the patient and her niece with the lack of support and education that both needed, as evidenced by the outcome.
There comes a point when someone is so sick that you ignore their wishes and call for help. Now I don't know the niece so I can't say exactly why she didn't, but that was not the point of my response. People are trying to claim she couldn't get care because of our health care system and it didn't have anything to do with that.
I disagree...it did have something to do with our health care system. The help was there through government agencies, but how to access those agencies is damn difficult to find. If they were for profit agencies they would manage to get the word out there.
The hospital was close by and they knew where it was and how to get care there...
"Frances died in 2003. Ramona went three years later. Concha Lopez had watched her sisters die in medical facilities and made her family promise to spare her such an end."
She didn't want that. How is that the hospitals fault?
What part of "There comes a point when someone is so sick that you ignore their wishes and call for help." is confusing you.
the part that says this could be considered elder abuse - if she's specifically said no additional measures to be taken. i'm with tweakabell in this. i was a community carer coordinator in aged care. the numbers of people that slide throught the cracks is unbelievable, and the vast majority would rather die than go into hospital or nursing homes. so it falls onto the family to look after them. by the time i got to them, the families are on the verge of breakdown, have lost their social contacts to keep their sanity and feel inordinate amounts of guilt to have someone come in to look after the family member, much less put them in resi care. i noticed that there were cousins who didn't feel she did her job waiting for a guilty verdict to come in. and yet the implication is that no one was coming in to relieve her in looking after her aunt. why is that? they want to blame her and share in any money that may be coming in for a criminal conviction, yet they wouldn't help her to look after the relative when she REALLY needed them. and if they DID visit, why didn't they arrange for dr, social worker, nurses to come in??
makes me vy glad i live over here now, sometimes. but especially when i see what the insurance companies have done to health care over there. it's just plain evil.
I think you are misunderstanding the quote and my reason for repeating it. We agree.
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