People should be treated with dignity and bodily sovereignty, have control over their medical care and treatment over the facility or the facilities’ doctors and nurses.
- There should NEVER be any forced medical care, including anti-psychotics, anti-depressants or vaccinations.
- Medications and treatment should only be given a patient after the facility receives authorization (preferably written) from the patient’s designated health care representative.
- The Facilities should not be able to require that their clients be treated by the facilities’ doctors and no longer treat with their own doctor.
- Nursing Homes need to be monitored to make sure that they do not force a person who can walk into a wheelchair, solely to protect themselves from liability due to falls.
- Assisted Living and Long-Term Care facilities should have to report on a public website how many of their patients are on anti-psychotics or anti- depressants and the satisfaction rating for each facility by the patients (similar to what is currently available on Medicare.gov.)
- Assisted Living and Long-term care facilities need to increase the quality of life for their residents and provide them with some sort of pleasant stimulation. When possible, they should not leave them lying all day in bed or sitting all day in a chair lined up along the hallway.
- Facilities’ required nurse to patient ratios need to be monitored and strictly enforced.
- Do not confine/quaranteen all residents of a facility to their room, if one resident has an illness.
Assisted Living Facilities and Long-Term Care Facilities need to end just being a facility where one just goes to wait to die. They need to treat the patients with dignity and compassion.