{"id":7464,"date":"2024-06-09T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:26:21","slug":"personal-conflicts-even-violence-are-not-uncommon-in-long-term-care-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"Personal Conflicts, Even Violence, Are Not Uncommon in Long-Term Care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At an assisted living facility in New York State, a small crowd had gathered at the dining room entrance at lunchtime, waiting for the doors to open. As a researcher observed, one woman, growing tired and frustrated, asked the man in front of her to move; he didn\u2019t appear to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, let\u2019s get going!\u201d she shouted \u2014 and pushed her walker into him.<\/p>\n

In Salisbury, Md., a woman awoke in the darkness to find another resident in her bedroom in an assisted living complex. Her daughter, Rebecca Addy-Twaits, suspected that her 87-year-old mother, who had dementia and could become confused, was hallucinating about the encounter.<\/p>\n

But the man, who lived down the hall, returned half a dozen times, sometimes during Ms. Addy-Twaits\u2019s visits. He never menaced or harmed her mother, but \u201cshe\u2019s entitled to her privacy,\u201d Ms. Addy-Twaits said. She reported the incidents to administrators.<\/p>\n

In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents\u2019 personal or living space, rummage through others\u2019 possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Or worse. Eilon Caspi, a gerontologist at the University of Connecticut, has searched news coverage and coroners\u2019 reports and identified 105 resident deaths<\/a> in long-term care facilities over 30 years that resulted from incidents involving other residents.<\/p>\n

The actual number is higher, he said, because such deaths don\u2019t always receive news media attention or are not reported in detail to the authorities.<\/p>\n

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At an assisted living facility in New York State, a small crowd had gathered at the dining room entrance at lunchtime, waiting for the doors to open. As a researcher observed, one woman, growing tired and frustrated, asked the man in front of her to move; he didn\u2019t appear to hear.\u201cCome on, let\u2019s get going!\u201d she shouted \u2014 and pushed her walker into him.In Salisbury, Md., a woman awoke in the darkness to find another resident in her bedroom in an assisted living complex. Her daughter, Rebecca Addy-Twaits, suspected that her 87-year-old mother, who had dementia and could become confused, was hallucinating about the encounter.But the man, who lived down the hall, returned half a dozen times, sometimes during Ms. Addy-Twaits\u2019s visits. He never menaced or harmed her mother, but \u201cshe\u2019s entitled to her privacy,\u201d Ms. Addy-Twaits said. She reported the incidents to administrators.In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents\u2019 personal or living space, rummage through others\u2019 possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push.Or worse. Eilon Caspi, a gerontologist at the University of Connecticut, has searched news coverage and coroners\u2019 reports and identified 105 resident deaths in long-term care facilities over 30 years that resulted from incidents involving other residents.The actual number is higher, he said, because such deaths don\u2019t always receive news media attention or are not reported in detail to the authorities.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}