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Originally Posted by HighOnAcid
I beg to differ. I don't think nursing homes are in everyone's future. My parents will never see the insides of a nursing home as long as me or my two brothers are alive.
The only difference is that the people in nursing homes don't have people that are a) successful enough or b) care enough to keep them out of those places.  |
I take exception to that and here is why.
When my mother had her massive stroke, the hospital had her for as long as they could in order to monitor her and do physical therapy. After that, no amount of home health care could have done what the nursing home could, so she went there until we could get a single story home. I was looking at the very first house with a realtor when my brother drove up to tell me that our mother had passed away.
a) level of "success" had absolutely *nothing* to do with it.
b) my 4 brothers and my sister and I loved and cared for her very much, not to mention her dozens of close friends and extended family all across the country.
There *are* circumstances where a hospital MUST have it's bed space and staff available for others and you must leave. You MUST have round the clock professional care in an accessible location for the patient, and fully equipped and staffed!
So the diffrence is not love or care or cash. ALL of those are important, but even with an abundance of all of those things, you have to do what is the right thing that makes the most common, and medical sense.
I dont think it's very realistic to call people without enough cash to outright purchase what will essentially be a hospital wing and staff as "unsuccessful".