My loved one was kicked out of the nursing home due to dementia behaviors. Now they're making us pay for a year. Can they do that?

Get a lawyer.

Yes, need more info. Never heard of a facility requesting a year to be paid.

Perhaps you loved one needs a psychiatric assessment to help figure out what meds can be used to give him some calm. Sometimes those assessments are best done in a "senior behavioral inpatient setting" or psychiatric hospital.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the facility is making you pay for a year? Do you mean that you haven't been paying all along? Or that they are making you pay for the next year? I'm confused.