• happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Totally noncompliant with it and they had family bringing in food that they filled the room with. You can use implied consent to act in their best interest if there is some inability to advocate for themselves, but that patient was totally there cognitively and in their 40s. It was just one of those cases where their spouse died and there was no one else willing to be a caretaker. Even being fairly fit I couldn't solo-roll that patient so they would have required two around-the-clock caretakers to move them around on the bed.