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Lynne Welch
06/22/08
Lynne Welch
Category:Nursing Homes

how do you get someone in a nursing home that is abusive and has physical disabilities

My father is 68 years old. He has early stages of dementia, he has Parkinson's Disease, he is paralyzed from the waist down, he suffers from severe depression and he is very verbally abusive to all family members and particularly my mom who is his sole caregiver. How do we go about getting him...

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