Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home And Hope They're Not In The 94% That Suck (Trees And Things)

JimmyHavok: Re: Lived Through A Few

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:01:50 EST

If you absolutely have to put someone you love in a home, I'd actually suggest using your nose as a guide.

My girlfriend worked up an ad campaign for a nursing home, and in the course of her research, that was the number one piece of advic

JimmyHavok: Re: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:58:55 EST

He'd always hem and haw about what the book said so I'd have to argue with him but eventually he'd give in.

Sounds good to me. Can I get a reference?

thefadd: Re: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:44:22 EST

That is what I thought and it's why I've come around to adamant opposition to socialized medicine. It's a god awful system designed to enrich drug companies and hmo executives. Without choice, people are a slave to the system. You will have universal cover

pO157: Re: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:20:02 EST

Unfortunately, anyone with a college graduate level education who wants to take a pro-active self-directed approach to health care would hate it.

A subset of the above group would really enjoy it: Physicians. Why do you think the AMA is pushing f

uncarved block: Lived Through A Few

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:42:37 EST

Yeah, state inspections at the home were a royal PITA, and much like police charges, small violations can be made to sound far more ominous than they are. The administration especially hated these yearly visits, because they typically felt li

wetkarma: Re: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:03:28 EST

Why is this?

The NHS model presupposes that people are stupid and know nothing about health care. It is very similar to a low-rent HMO plan in the states. Every request for health care must go through a GP (who is kind of like a doctor

thefadd: Re: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:20:34 EST

anyone with a college graduate level education who wants to take a pro-active self-directed approach to health care would hate it.

Why is this?

wetkarma: damn you all for making me read the report

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 03:27:48 EST

94% sounded like an awfully high yet somewhat familiar number. And only after I read the report did I figure out why. The method used for inspection is on a sliding scale ranging from life threatening to deficiency to no actual harm/potential for minimal h

MayorBob: When He's Tired Of Blogging.

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:23:26 EST

He'll get up from the computer, go to the door and shout, "get off my crypt you goldurned kids."

Lou: Re: No worries here

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:20:15 EST

Nah...you'll become a Zombie Blogger.

"Living in this grave yard used to mean something! Now we're overrun by the fully dead and they just lie there...they don't take care of their crypts or anything. I tell ya, this place...it's almost like

JimmyHavok: Re: Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:32:51 EST

My wife and I are in a care-giver position right now, with her parents. It's damned stressful, more on her than on me, I'd say, but still stressful. I can easily understand the decision to put a parent who needs 24-hour care into a nursing home

pO157: Re: No worries here

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:31:49 EST

Apply that shit to me, as well. If I am rotting away in a nursing home expect me to come back and give all you people -1, obnoxiouses from beeeeeeyond the grrrraaaaaaave!

Plus I'll haunt you and whatnot.

Lou: No worries here

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:07:12 EST

Since there will be -0- people around to take care of me in my dotage and I'm not real keen on living in a elder warehouse where an angry highschool dropout will be in charge of wiping my ass, I plan shuffling off this vale of tears long before I can no lo

uncarved block: Willing Vs Able

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:11:38 EST

The question isn't always one of willingness. The title of a popular book about home Alzheimers care is The 36 Hour Day, which in my experience is very accurate. Even mild cases can be difficult, both practically and emotionally, and a

uncarved block: Yes And No

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:39:07 EST

self-centered baby boomer generation that hated their parents

Had much experience with Alzheimer's patients? Or Parkinsons disease?

port1080: Re: Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:32:47 EST

Now that boomers themselves are reaching that age, generally healthier and more well off than their parents I'd suspect the economics of the industry to change greatly.

This is a good point. I also wonder if there's anything to the anecdota

skeptic: Re: Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:00:38 EST

I agree that there are lots of people who want, or who at some future date will want both to be cared for and to be independent, but it is a paradoxical desire. To be independent means not to depend upon others, and if you need to be cared for by oth

thefadd: Re: Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:49:46 EST

The nursing home was largely a construct of the self-centered baby boomer generation that hated their parents and wanted them the hell out of the house. Now that boomers themselves are reaching that age, generally healthier and more well off than their par

skeptic: Re: Put Mom And Dad In The Nursing Home

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:44:48 EST

In the old days, before nursing homes. the elderly were generally cared for (well or badly) by their relatives - indeed, this was long considered to be one of the most important reasons for having children, so they would be there when you needed them. &nbs

gerrymander: don't take the brown vitamins

Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:53:02 EST

Other deficiencies noted in the report include medication mix-ups, poor nutrition, and unsanitary conditions.

Bad food, bad hygiene and wonky drugs? That's an opportunity, not a problem. Label it "A chance to re-live the Woodstock Experience!" an