Sydney dementia patient ‘didn’t sleep for months’ after police called to subdue her, family say
by Christopher Knaus and Tamsin Rose from World news | The Guardian on (#6BV8W)
Calls for reform grow with daughter of patient saying families should be notified when police are deployed to aged care homes
A family who say they were not told when police were deployed to help control their 79-year-old mother in a Sydney dementia unit are calling for a change to make it mandatory for family to be notified about the use of law enforcement.
On 4 June 2020, paramedics attempted to subdue an agitated Norma Robertson, who had only been in the care of the dementia unit at HammondCare in a Sydney suburb for about four weeks.
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