85-year-old released from jail
NORWICH – The Chenango County Sheriff and the Department of Social Services followed through on a promise to have an incarcerated 85-year-old nursing home resident transferred from the county jail to a nursing home by the end of the week.
Chenango County Sheriff Thomas Loughren thanked the Social Services’ adult protective service division and pointed the finger at the nursing home which requested that the resident be arrested.
Chase Memorial Nursing Home staff contacted police and filed a complaint Oct. 3 against a resident at the facility, Leonard Bentley, who was then incarcerated on $1,000 bail for the charge of public lewdness.
Bentley was moved by the Department of Social Services Tuesday evening to a temporary residence at a local nursing home until a final residence for him can be found.
“He was evaluated at the jail and it was determined that he needed a higher level of care than could be offered there, so temporary measures were worked out with the family in finding a nursing home,” said DSS Commissioner Betty Osborne, who explained the home would provide supervised care for Bentley.
“This is one example of the Chenango County Jail being taken advantage of,” said the Sheriff.
Loughren said he personally reviewed the case and the events leading up to the man’s arrest in the wake of the incident which left many county agencies scratching their heads on how to handle the 85-year-old suffering from dementia.
“I disagree with the choices made by their medical experts, and our medical staff also disagrees,” he said, referring to Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Berlin.
Osborne also criticized Chase, saying, “We have not run into this type of a situation before that I can recall. I think if they had long range planning, they could’ve handled it differently and it would have gone a lot smoother.”
“It was unusual for the nursing home staff to take this path when others were available and after discussing the defendant’s issues with a number of elderly care professionals from across the board, they basically told me that this individual’s problems were routine for someone of his age suffering from his type of mental illness,” said Loughren.
The Sheriff said he’d have to be “hard pressed” before deputies arrested a nursing home resident again.
“It was all legal and legitimate, nothing wrong was technically done, but we don’t typically house people of that age in our facility and the public frowns on us when we do,” Loughren said.
Loughren said degrees of mental illness are common among inmates and that nearly one third of those currently being held at the facility are on psychotropic drugs.
Officials from Chase Memorial Nursing Home were not available for comment.
Chenango County Sheriff Thomas Loughren thanked the Social Services’ adult protective service division and pointed the finger at the nursing home which requested that the resident be arrested.
Chase Memorial Nursing Home staff contacted police and filed a complaint Oct. 3 against a resident at the facility, Leonard Bentley, who was then incarcerated on $1,000 bail for the charge of public lewdness.
Bentley was moved by the Department of Social Services Tuesday evening to a temporary residence at a local nursing home until a final residence for him can be found.
“He was evaluated at the jail and it was determined that he needed a higher level of care than could be offered there, so temporary measures were worked out with the family in finding a nursing home,” said DSS Commissioner Betty Osborne, who explained the home would provide supervised care for Bentley.
“This is one example of the Chenango County Jail being taken advantage of,” said the Sheriff.
Loughren said he personally reviewed the case and the events leading up to the man’s arrest in the wake of the incident which left many county agencies scratching their heads on how to handle the 85-year-old suffering from dementia.
“I disagree with the choices made by their medical experts, and our medical staff also disagrees,” he said, referring to Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Berlin.
Osborne also criticized Chase, saying, “We have not run into this type of a situation before that I can recall. I think if they had long range planning, they could’ve handled it differently and it would have gone a lot smoother.”
“It was unusual for the nursing home staff to take this path when others were available and after discussing the defendant’s issues with a number of elderly care professionals from across the board, they basically told me that this individual’s problems were routine for someone of his age suffering from his type of mental illness,” said Loughren.
The Sheriff said he’d have to be “hard pressed” before deputies arrested a nursing home resident again.
“It was all legal and legitimate, nothing wrong was technically done, but we don’t typically house people of that age in our facility and the public frowns on us when we do,” Loughren said.
Loughren said degrees of mental illness are common among inmates and that nearly one third of those currently being held at the facility are on psychotropic drugs.
Officials from Chase Memorial Nursing Home were not available for comment.
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