Just posted there also.

There are so many sides to this......& the one that personally effected me was my grandmother who had violent alzheimers. Before we were able to get her into the care faclity, she not only beat my grandfather with her cane, she broke almost everything in her house.

In the care facility which was one of the best....with wonderful care givers & the fact that my grandfather was with her every day.....but she would get violent there also & they would end up giving her a shot of Haldol or what ever they needed to calm her down.....that is also forced treatment & if you take away all forced treatment just because.....there will be a lot of negative consequences with that choice also.

I personally believe that there needs to be some serious controls & standards that can be controlled with consequenses otherwise on the forced care that exists now which I do agree in some cases is not ok....while for others, the people who force their treatment do it in a very dignified manor & treat the people with respect....not all forced treatment is equal out there & I'm sure that if you check, there are probably as many positives that come out of it as the negatives & the negatives are usually because of the way it's implemented.

Don't think that either extreme is the right answer since so much is on a case by case basis....but if there were better controls & requirements placed on any forced treatment that does happen to bring it into humane & dignified treatment, there wouldn't be the trauma that seems to go along with it in the negative situations.