{"id":86509,"date":"2026-03-16T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86509"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:45:00","slug":"dementia-patients-routinely-restrained-and-sedated-in-nhs-hospitals-that-treat-them-like-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/dementia-patients-routinely-restrained-and-sedated-in-nhs-hospitals-that-treat-them-like-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia patients &#8216;routinely restrained and sedated in NHS hospitals that treat them like prisoners&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1YLveC.img?w=534&amp;h=382&amp;m=6&amp;x=226&amp;y=55&amp;s=124&amp;d=124\" alt=\"Some patients are prevented from leaving their bed for weeks at a time, with victims likening their stay to being imprisoned, kidnapped or held hostage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dementia patients are being routinely restrained and sedated in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> hospitals which treat them like prisoners, a shocking report reveals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/dementia-patients-routinely-restrained-and-sedated-in-nhs-hospitals-that-treat-them-like-prisoners\/ar-AA1YLRxk?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b886f4333b483aac66029f184ab4bf&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Dementia patients are being routinely restrained and sedated in\u00a0NHS hospitals which treat them like prisoners, a shocking report reveals. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/elderly-care.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86510,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86509\/revisions\/86510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}