Nurses Caught Manhandling 92-Year-Old Dementia Patient, but Judge Says ‘It’s Not Abuse’

Nurses Caught Manhandling 92-Year-Old Dementia Patient, but Judge Says ‘It’s Not Abuse’
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“Mom was in pain, obviously, putting her hands up to protect herself,” said heartbroken son Ed Robins.

Robins had noticed bruising and skin tears on his 92-year-old mother’s body. Fearing the worst, the conscientious son concealed a camera in his mother’s room at Morrison Lodge nursing home in Perth, Australia. Robins thought, potentially, that his mother, Jean, was being handled inappropriately by the staff.