I've heard that residents in a secured memory care community have to be allowed to leave the building if they stand at the door and ask to be let out. It's part of resident's rights. In other words, it usurps power of attorney legalities.
This will mean that communities caring for residents with dementia, will have to have someone to escort them out the door, in order to keep them safe and try to redirect them inside. This is going to raise the price of care.
Can anyone add to this and maybe give me the code in the law?
When you write that "it usurps power of attorney legalities", I think you're getting into a different area, i.e., that of rights likely afforded by statute to someone in a memory care unit, vs. authority granted in a DPOA. In most contracts I've seen that are well drafted, there's a provision that if any portion is ever superceded by statute, that portion of the contract is deemed to be subject to the overriding statutory provision.
I think it would be the same if a DPOA granted powers which were eventually overridden by legislation or case law.
Before even trying to find it legally, I'd like to know where you heard it from. If the source isn't reliable, searching for the statutory provision is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack.
You could also go directly to the source and ask someone in a memory care unit. They'd be versed on such a law if it existed.
http://www.alzheimer-europe.org/Ethics/Ethical-issues-in-practice/The-ethical-issues-linked-to-restrictions-of-freedom-of-people-with-dementia/Restriction-of-the-freedom-to-choose-one-s-residence-or-place-of-stay