{"id":2700,"date":"2013-07-23T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:23:30","slug":"dementia-and-sexual-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"Dementia and sexual activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, here&#39;s a very difficult situation. I have great sympathy for the head nurse and administrator. The expression &quot;You&#39;re damned if you do, and you&#39;re damned if you don&#39;t&quot; comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>To make a small (very small) joke, they really got screwed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-07-22\/boomer-sex-with-dementia-foreshadowed-in-nursing-home.html\" target=\"_self\">What followed illustrates one of the most complex and unexamined issues facing elderly care facilities as the Baby Boom generation enters old age: How to determine if residents with dementia have the mental capacity to consent to sex. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Windmill Manor incident and its lengthy aftermath also show that<br \/>\nnursing homes, regulators and families are not prepared to deal with<br \/>\nthat question. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt ruined my life,\u201d the director of nursing at the time, Karen Etter, said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">She was fired. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s the most difficult thing I\u2019ve ever had to live through,\u201d said Steve Drobot, the former Windmill Manor administrator. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He was fired, too. <\/p>\n<p>Hit the link for the whole feature, which is posted on Bloomberg\/Business Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, here&#39;s a very difficult situation. I have great sympathy for the head nurse and administrator. The expression &quot;You&#39;re damned if you do, and you&#39;re damned if you don&#39;t&quot; comes to mind. To make a small (very small) joke, they really got screwed. What followed illustrates one of the most complex and unexamined issues facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6254,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/6254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}