It's an uncomfortable image to consider: an elderly person – perhaps somebody you know – physically restrained. Maybe an aged care resident deemed likely to fall has been bound to his chair using ...

When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. His mother noticed he seemed leery, questioning everything she did. His ankles and wrists bore scars — the result, he said, ...

St. Joseph Hospital management disputes the claim that it directed workers to apply medical and physical restraints to patients too early and often, a complaint that resulted in a citation against the ...

Physical restraints remain a common intervention in intensive and critical care units worldwide, employed to prevent accidental removal of life-support devices, reduce falls, and manage severe ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...