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Originally Posted by ronster
One particular resident, a male who is 74, has been diagnosed with the onset of Alzheimer's (his admission) and has recently begun hostile confrontations with other residents. Nothing physical has happened yet but I know that he is heavily armed with two shotguns, a rifle, two pistols and a knife because he showed them to me a few months ago. After he started a confrontation with me a week ago I learned of the other confrontations at a recent party and decided to notify management about his weapons.
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If there's any way of finding out the name of the doctor that made the diagnosis, ask for a face-to-face meeting and take along a local police officer and someone from the management at your retirement community.
Also, when my dad was diagnosed, the family was told it would be a good idea to go ahead and start looking at nursing homes because many times the patient doesn't move from his present mental state to aggressive in a gradual and linear fashion... it often occurs suddenly; they can become very combative and be more than a handful for a spouse or other family to handle.
The management should be working with this in mind because if he was moved to an assisted living facility or a nursing home,
they for sure wouldn't let him bring firearms.
Is there a community association that meets monthly? Go to the meeting and bring it up.