Geriatrician Susan Kurrle agrees, when questioned in Sen Const Kristian White’s manslaughter trial, that reduction in medication could have led to aggressive behaviour
Clare Nowland was tasered by police officer Kristian White in her Cooma nursing home in May 2023. He has pleaded not guilty to her manslaughter.Clare Nowland was tasered by police officer Kristian White in her Cooma nursing home in May 2023. He has pleaded not guilty to her manslaughter.A 95-year-old nursing home resident tasered by a police officer had displayed behaviour consistent with dementia and arthritis that impacted her ability to walk, a Sydney court has heard.
White tasered the great-grandmother – who moved with the aid of a walking frame and weighed 47.5kg – in a Snowy Mountains nursing home in May 2023 after repeated requests for her to put down a knife. The jury was shown CCTV of Nowland climbing into a tree and becoming stuck. Footage also showed her ramming a staff member with her walker.“It is clearly in the three months before her death that the behaviours changed fairly dramatically,” Kurrle said.
Kurrle also agreed under cross-examination that, given her behaviour, it would have been appropriate for Nowland to have been in a dementia-specific unit.The court heard that people with dementia could show increased strength when they were upset or angry.
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