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There's no need to lock older people into nursing homes 'for their own safety'

  • Written by Marta Woolford, PhD Candidate and Research Officer at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
imageAllowing nursing home residents to come and go as they wish may not be so dangerous after all.from www.shutterstock.com

Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up “for their own safety”. But our review shows there’s little justification in most cases for this unfair and unreasonable practice.

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