Forcing food?

Well, that's the problem. The company in Amicasa, Decatur GA and the owner scares this girls into keeping my Stepmom alive. She keeps putting more ads in the paper for more caregivers because they don't really like working for her and the majority of them leave. We've had a ton of them. She hires a lot of foreigners who are usually going to school to get a better job. It takes a special person to feed someone and clean them and lift them (except they use a hoist) which is another thing that is shocking. I don't know if they use that in hospitals but they have been hoisting her way up in the air. It's seem just barbaric. My stepmom is real thin and fragile with arthritis (w/o seeing a arthritis specialist)and they put her on this crane like hoist way up in the air. Now that she is on hospice, I hope that can stop. Maybe I just don't understand the ways of in home caregivers that hoist seems so painful for arthritis patents.

She has 2 guardians who seemed to be satisfied with Amicasa of Decatur,GA but now that she went on hospice for like the 3rd time they decided to use a different company w/clergy & lots of people,thank God. So they are just using Amicasa for feeding her and 24 hr care but the hospice is going to be there some of the time. I've reported all this to Dekalb County,GA and adult protection has come out and passed them and someone else is also reporting it too, someone I don't know. How they are allowing Amicasa to stay in business is beyond me. I can only guess that the Adult Protection women is friends with Amicasa owner. Back when my Dad was alive the Adult Protection people wanted my Dad to move and not move my Stepmom into a facility for Alzheimer and she was screaming her head off all night keeping the neighbors up and they wanted my mild matter Dad to move. It makes no sense at all. Something seem so corrupt in our government.

Amicasa caregivers or stepmom's brother took her to her doctor long ago and changed her password so the family did not have access to her records and were unable to find out her medical condition. After one of her doctors started her own practice I found out that her personal doctor did not know anything about the dangerous meds that was was taking for Alzheimer which was experimental at the time . The Caregivers , Amicasa of Decatur,GA, took her to a psychiatrist (w/permission from one guardian) that they knew and put her on a experimental dangerous drug. I am not sure if she is still on that drug now or not. ( I can find the name of it). My stepmom to this day has only had a inhouse doctor that the caregiver knew come in and examine. We are not sure if he is a real doctor or what and she use to be a real believer of going to the hospital most of her life but not now, when she needs it. Thank goodness she is going to get a REAL hospice group in to comfort her. Amicasa was mad that we got a different hospice group since they do Hospice too but the guardians decided to come to their senses and use a different group but still have Amicasa for a 24 hr caregiver. We had tried to use Amicasa before to be a hospice caregiver but nothing seemed to change...no clergy, no special treatment, no extra people...it was really like Medicare fraud to me.

It's been since 2015 and I have not seen a feeding tube yet. Sometimes she can eat pureed food or something soft. But I have witnessed the feeder down her throat. I lived there on and off during her screaming years. Her brother (being from California) didn't believe in sedatives to sleep , just melatonin and she would have screaming fits three or four times a night which was when I was staying there. Later on after my Dad died , then the brother put her on a sedative. But they would wake her up to try to get her to eat and then she sleeps again. The cylinder feeding was back when she was real difficult to deal with. There was a girl name Diana that was doing it. This is a Amicasa caregivers in Decatur, GA. (then Jonesboro). Adult protection was called on Amicasa many times but I think the young Dekalb Adult protection women that comes out is friends with the Amicasa owner and just gives her a warning.

She's been on Hospice twice and the caregivers also do Hospice so we let them do it but it was just like regular caregiving and no one else came by. So we added a new Hospice group along with the old Amicasa caregivers. Amicasa was not happy about it because they wanted Medicare to pay them but we thought we would try sometime different and it seems to be starting up nicely. A whole group of people are coming in to comfort her and it seems real organized. The Amicasa, Decatur GA hospice didn't seem any different when they did it except I think she got a better bed.

Well, the CNA company, Amicasa company,Decatur, GA also did "Hospice" a few times already, or at least they were collecting money from Medicare for it but they continued to feed her and apparently she has been on and off Hospice a few times. Now, that's what they told us, but they never stopped feeding her and we never saw any helpers coming in to comfort. When we told the Amicasa owner that we were going to try a different Hospice the owner was upset about it and we told her that we were going to try something different but she still does 24 hr care.