I am a carer for a Parkinson's wife, with dementia, with very high falling probability and a medication schedule that is every 1-3 hours. I do it 24/7. Its hard work, and all-consuming. There is no time to do anything other than care. What really bends my mind is how ANY facility could provide the care that I do. It would mean one to one care for every patient round the clock. I dread to think what would happen to my wife in any facility, never mind the absolutely awful situations described here. The only answer for me was to hire a care-worker who I pay directly and who works in partnership with me. That's now two-to-one caring. This is one of those mind bending things that does not present an obvious solution. This whole story is truly terrible.
I hate to say this which sounds cruel and not specific to your wife. Maybe human beings are not meant to live a substantial amount of time after becoming permanently incapacitated?
@slomo4672 agree..old saying..pneumonia is the blessing of the aged..but no..let's keep comatose people alive in their 80's...if you want your "loved" ones to l8v3 l9ng then keep them home with you.
I practice in nursing homes for 25 years. Nothing has changed! Staff shortage is always an issue. Residence are at extreme risk. Well facilities suck Medicare and Medicaid dry. Nothing has changed.
Government should require care giver to patient ratio. For number of staff, check the company bank account to see how many care givers it actually pays salaries to, not the number that the company claims to have.
Nope. The government should make it so you can say goodbye to your loved one with dignity and respect. Rather than stuffing them in old folks homes to just wither away and die.
And the staff need to spend their time actually doing direct patient care, not sitting in front of computers, claiming that they are “charting”, messing around on their phones, or socializing with each other. If they have downtime, they should be chatting and comforting patients, and giving back rubs.
So it had to take someone of a new station like Lisa Ling to bring this to the fore front if anything going to change I really doubt It has been going on forever.
I have a friend in the facility called majestic care it’s in Fairfield Ohio Cincinnati I’ve been going to see her for two years every day and what I saw on the video is exactly what’s happening to her I got very upset when they drop her twice and they wouldn’t leave her soil all day so they kick me out because I’m not a family but she does not have any family is never had a baby she’s never been married her story is a sad one I hope they can make big changes for profit facilities should not even be allowed we need some new legislation
Nursing homes are just as bad as insane asylums of the past in many ways. My mom was treated like trash, worse than a prisoner, wrongly medicated and left to suffer. Most people my age will end up in state homes if we’re lucky and yet we currently turn a blind eye.
Into the Nursing Home You Go, When You will Die, Don't Nobody Know, Into the Nursing Home Your Thrown, Sitting Around, Always Alone. There's Treatments, Nurses, with Too Many Pills, Oh My Lord, I've Too Many Ills. Then Skin Tears Bleeding All Over Me, Oh My God, Please Set Me Free, Into the Nursing Home You Went, Now That You've Died, To the Funeral Home Your Sent..
Nursing homes are just as bad as insane asylums of the past in many ways. My mom was treated like trash, worse than a prisoner, wrongly medicated and left to suffer. Most people my age will end up in state homes if we’re lucky and yet we currently turn a blind eye.
