What is a cage bed?
The cage bed defines the bed completely closed by metal sticks or mesh on all sides, including the upper part to limit the patient to a small area. These beds use a vertical or horizontal bar and a padlock to reduce patients who show aggressive behavior, control demanding behavior and protect clients from injury. In most countries, the plow beds were banned as inhuman and humiliating, but some European psychiatric institutions continue to use them as an alternative to drugs.
The 2003 International Mental Disability International Center (MDAC) found that some institutionalized patients have been limited to a cage 24 hours a day for years to control aggressive behavior or inadequate staffing in psychiatric departments of some hospitals. The study concerned the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia and caused an international debate on the use of cages as the main living space of the client. Attorney CenterIE called the use of a foyer bed in these situations they deteriorate and marked them as a form of torture.
The study found that some institutions used cage deposits in violation of international human rights standards at a time when four countries were preparing to join the European Union. The controversy led to the fact that cage deposits were banned in mental health institutions in Hungary and Slovenia and less extensive changes in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Scientists have visited 20 psychiatric departments in hospitals and mental institutions in Eastern and Central Europe. They found employees in nursing homes and mental departments used cages to control patients who showed difficult behavior due to serious mental disability. The beds were also used to limit the dementia clients of dementia to protect them from wandering and injuries. Organization for Human Rights underAla protests when the study revealed some patients placed in a cage bed as a punishment for undesirable behavior.
International Human Rights Treaties prohibit cruel or inhuman treatment of mental patients or people who live in social care such as orphans. These contracts define a lonely imprisonment in a cage as a form of torture humiliating people who cannot defend themselves. MDAC considered the use of these beds to be too restrictive and a form of imprisonment. Finally, the cage should only be used as the last option when less restrictive attempts to check the client show up ineffective.