Alzheimer's: Nursing Home Can Fire Employee for Interfering In Family's Finances 

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

May 1999 

  Quick Summary: The Court of Appeals of Utah upheld the firing of a nursing home employee for telling a resident her VA check had arrived. The employee ignored instructions to let a family member inform the resident, an Alzheimer’s patient, so that purchasing a new wheelchair the resident needed could be discussed. Rackley v.  Care Center, 970 P. 2d 277 (Utah App., 1998).