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I work in developmental disabilities, the situation there is much the same. A lot of the time their lives just suck and the consequences of that is "solved" by
by thatguy0900 5y ago
I work in developmental disabilities, the situation there is much the same. A lot of the time their lives just suck and the consequences of that is "solved" by giving them behavior controling medication because giving them good fulfilling lives is hard and expensive. I don't see any reason it would be different for nursing homes.
- rhizome 5y agoYou could say the same about my use of an antidepressant.
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- thatguy0900 5y agoThe tragedy of the articles situation is that someone in a nursing home or assisted living has little or no agency to improve their lives, so the meds seem forced upon them. The common man has the perception of having agency to improve his own situation, so it's not as tragic to have to be on antidepressants.
- rhizome 5y agoI probably could have quoted it, but I was referring to "giving them good fulfilling lives is hard and expensive." Absolutely the captive nature of assisted living makes any transgression worse, but I guess underneath my unintentional irony there's a grain of truth in that they aren't trying to give them those lives anyway, they just want them to be easier to manage. In a certain sense it's a maiming.
- bsder 5y agoWhen I have dementia, what is a "fulfilling life"? Personally, if I'm at the point where someone wants to give me haloperidol because of age related dementia, it is probably long past time for me to depart from this Earth.