Recently there was a topic of nursing home quilts and other property being stolen. I had shared my husband had been in senior care for many years and a few thoughts on the matter. Tonight he asked what was one of the chat topic and I told him of this one. He shared there also is something commonly refered to as 'shopping'. Residents will go into each others room and take things they like, return to their room and hide it. In all most all cases it is not a malicious act but it requires the staff to basically do a strip down complete room to room search looking in and under things- even between the matresses. So- if you have a family member in senior care- request a search be done and do follow up that they are looking. Even if they don't turn up what you are missing, they may find other items gone missing. To cap that with an actual incident. My husband had been given a very expensive pen and had carried it into one of the senoir care facilities he was inspecting. One of the residents remarked how shiney it was. When he got home it was no where to be found. Several days later the staff phoned to let him know he could pick up his pen at the front desk and it was sanitized and bagged. Turned out the sweet little frail alzheinmer impaired woman had taken it right from under his nose and stuck it in the back of her underwear. The staff decided they better check what was up as she kept adjusting her underwear and refused to allow them to help her in anyway. Okay- so a quilt is a little big for that, but you may be surprised where it turns up. Now that I think of it, I remeber his telling me not to bring anything into the homes we could not keep a hand on- to include the kids- the residents were forever taking them off places and introducing them as their grandchild or trying to tuck them in their own bed.