Elder abuse vs medical treatment

Brie

@squirrelchops2 - not sure but a POA for Canada looks much the same as one for the UK so I would have thought the rights would be essentially the same.  After all much of Canadian law is based on English (except for in Quebec of course where it's more French)

@elsien - apparently she was essentially strapped down in the bed.  That has now stopped as she has responded to antibiotics and is recovering somewhat.  Likely to go home again and just as likely to be back in hospital in another week. 

I'm unclear (as likely my bros are and the medical team too perhaps) if mini strokes are triggering aspirated pneumonia or something the other way around.  Either way after each episode her dementia increases a bit which is making managing her, inside or outside of a hospital, more difficult.

Meanwhile I've read my bros the riot act and said they have to keep me better informed.  No point in emailing me late in the day to say she's doing incredibly badly but they're going back to find out more in the morning and then not giving me any kind of update.  I start imagining all sorts!

elsien

Strapped to a bed wouldn’t happen in this country. May be worth checking out the relevant legislation over there and that it was being complied with. 

Flugelhorn

@Brie DOLS is separate from POA and set up by care staff who have to apply to the Dept of Justice - basically recognises that people have the liberty reduced and the circumstances under which it was done etc - I used to visit a few care homes where the very confused residents were prone to go walkabout so all external doors where locked, pressure mats outside doors etc  so all the residents in specific parts had DOLS, & at that time if they died of any cause it was treated as reportable to the coroner and a report had to be sent to him, also we had to get the coroners officer (ie the local police) out at the time of death - they have eased up on that now.