Other ways of "restraining" that I've met, in NH and hospital -
more subtle maybe, but just as radically affecting the person )-:
- Denying/delaying to help patient/resident transfer from
(wheel)chair to bed, or from bed to (wheel)chair.
- Placing resident in a chair she can't drive when able and
wanting to drive own wheelchair.
- Not offering waterproof seat cushion in powerchair to resident
that sometimes wets his pants - in order to "teach him not to".
(So, when he did anyway, he would be "grounded" indoors for
days in a manuel chair he could hardly drive.)
I guess those examples goes to show that restraining is not
always something we do - could as easily be something we
didn't!!
cybs/susanne, denmark
Susanne - I am surprised. I always imagine europe, especially scandinavia as so " enlightened" that I would have thought you wouldn't even be that familiar with restraints. -- Jody
