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Please read this before you decide to place your loved ones in memory care at The Carlisle. I wish I had known beforehand the devastation that this would have on our 85 year old dad, a 20 year US Air Force test and fighter pilot and Korean War veteran. Dad has advanced dementia/Alzheimer’s disease and sometimes becomes agitated and combative. After our mother passed away in May 2014, I moved Dad down to South Florida to live in The Carlisle near me so I could visit him almost every day. We also hired 24/7 private aides to care for him at that facility. Perhaps being too new to memory care, The Carlisle has some untrained aides and nurses as it relates to defusing agitation/aggression. There are also some that are very good and are experienced and caring. At the end of January of 2015, unfortunately, The Carlisle felt they should call 911 as Dad became combative and the police report showed they were called about a “mentally ill person” and Baker-Acted him. I wish they had just told me to come and pick him up and never bring him back and I would have complied without hesitation. We were in the process of trying to get his meds right. A nightmare ensued of a total of 18 days in the hospital (2 ½ days in the psyche unit completely drugged) and 6 weeks later he is still in rehab trying to learn how to walk again. He lost 25 pounds, developed an infection and, mysteriously, acquired an acute fractured rib while in the 1st hospital visit. Please find out if any ALF that you are considering will handle these situations where your loved one and family might be put in the same devastating and life altering situation that our family is now in. I understand that a Florida representative is working on a new bill to present hopefully at the next session to change the laws of Baker-Acting dementia/Alzheimer’s patients.

Quail Haven Village in Pinehurst, NC is horrible. My father was admitted for rehab on Friday, November 14, 2014. I work and stay in Raleigh during the week and came down Friday night to see him. I was a bit concerned by all the white call lights on and skeleton staff. He was asleep and I spoke briefly to the night nurse who seemed aware of my father’s condition. I returned on Saturday, November 15, 2014. The staff had let my father sit in his feces for hours after "forgetting" he had called. When I asked the nurse to clean him up, she accused him of not pressing the call button and began to argue with me. At one point, five staff members were yelling at me in the hall. They refused to clean up my father until I "treated them with respect". They don't accurately record when they give him his pain medications and when I asked to see the paper records, they refused. Staff falsifies records. I had to ask for my father's catheter bag to be emptied since it was full, the supervisor said her "records" showed that I "demanded" the staff empty his bag when it was only 200. I informed her the bag was at 2000 not 200 and suggested their record-keeping was not adequate. She again denied any staff malfeasance. I said, "OK, don't believe, I'll just take photos the next time." The supervisor told me that I was "not allowed to take photographs." The staff members removed their nametags and refused to speak with either my father or me and the same woman who started the argument with me gave us multiple names (Wanda and Pearl). I recorded a conversation in which the supervisor, Joan Vasilik, told me that I am "not allowed to ask staff members their names" which is a violation of NC Law 90-640. Identification badges required. The place reeks of urine and feces. After my altercation, I left for a few hours. When I returned, the "nurse" who started the argument with me went into my father's room and yelled at him. Apparently, the staff is taking their anger out on my father, took his water mug away and “forgot” to return it for two hours. They refused to provide him with extra pillows so I brought some from home. Rooms have no phones so patients/inmates can't call for family to help them. The food is ALWAYS served cold, the food is inedible and the food service people are annoyed when you ask them to reheat it. Until we can get him out of this hellhole, we're providing his food. To summarize: Only put your elderly here if you hate them and want them to suffer. Staff forges records. Patients have no way to call for help. Staff turns off call buttons. Staff denies errors. Staff argues and refuses to provide basic services. Staff is sloppy with distribution of pain medications. Staff refuses to wear nametags or identify themselves. Supervisors aren't interested in improving staff, just protecting them. Staff is used to bullying old people with diminished mental capabilities. Food is sub-standard and served cold.