How many of you agree that our elderly get mistreated in nursing homes?
360976
I didn't think about it until I had actually experienced first-hand, but the elderly are most certainly mistreated in nursing homes:\n\nIn my freshman year of high school, our English teacher asked us to do a community service project with either the elderly, special needs or other worthy cause. We were to pick a specific location and work for 6 hours. I chose the elderly in a nursing home close to my house.\n\nWhen I went there, the place was very quiet, and not lively at all. It was almost creepy. Then, when we went to help the elderly, the staff asked my friend and I to assist the elderly during their meal by coaxing them to eat, opening things, and sometimes even feed them. However, the more self-sufficient adults were in one area, while the severely handicapped were on the other side of the room. One particular nurse was FORCING and SHOVING food into an elderly lady's mouth. The lady could not get up; she had to be reclined and could barely open her eyes, let alone her mouth. The nurse kept pushing and shoving food into the lady's mouth, and food started to drip down.\n\nAfter I saw this horrible act, I have vowed to never, ever send my parents to a nursing home of any kind. I'll stay home and take care of them myself.
905157
I dont want mine in homes when they get old. Just like I dont want my son in daycare. You cannot trust them damn strangers with people that are that close to your heart. You dont know what goes on in their personal lives ... for all we know they could be mad at life or have something wrong with them and decide to take it out on the people we LOVE!  The risk isnt worth it.  Haven't you seen video clip footage of people treating the elderly badly in those homes? Check Maury out lol
6239
no, i work in a nursing home and that is not something that is funny. People deserve to be treated equally. You wouldnt want to be laughed at if it were you. Imagine that lady as your mom or grandmother.
141441
Line up the poor and frail elderly.  Draw bullseyes on them.  Fire!! \nSorry for the lash out, I work for a medicare HMO and am feeling sick at the cuts
499376
As a generalization, absolutely.\n\nPeople in America don't stay as close to their families, physically or emotionally, as they do in other countries. \n\nWe move far away from our families and they don't occupy as high a place in our list of priorities as they do for people from other countries. \nAlso, when our family members need help- i.e. get old and/or sick- we tend to send them off to a "home" instead of taking them into *our* home. Retirement homes and nursing homes aren't very common in the rest of the world.\nPeople in other countries seem to have a stronger sense of familial duty than Americans.
289512
I work in a nursing home, and needless to say when our patients die no heroic measures are taken, their quality of life is zero and reviving them would be prolonging their agony. One man died in the early hours of the morning, the nurse on duty couldn't feel a pulse or hear him breathing when she listened with a stethoscope. \nThe Dr. came out to certify him a couple of hours later, by this time the man looked waxy and blue, and was very obviously dead, but the Dr. could hear a faint heartbeat, although the man was definitely not breathing.\nHe still certified him though, and before he left he said to the nurse if he comes back to life please call me! We were all seriously freaked, but by the time the undertakers arrived the man hadn't made any miraculous recovery, and was still dead.     Or was he?         Absolute true story!
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Do you possibly mean "elders" as in elderly people?  If so, may elderly people do very much like children, but some don't.  This could be for a number of reasons:\n\n* Because little ones move so fast they may be afraid that they will get knocked down and hurt.\n\n* Because many young ones these days are not taught manners and this disgusts the older ones.\n\n* Because many kids are bored around adults and the elderly ones don't know what activities to do with the kids. \n\n* Because they've already finished raising their own chlidren and they are simply too tired to spend much more time with younger ones.\n\nDoes that help?
669157
i believe that is a problem with the elderly. their bodies don't function as well as they used to to regulate the heat and cold.  that's why they say for them to drink liquids, especially in the hot months. keeping the air conditioning on will help.  that's why so many elderly parish during months of extreme heat or cold.
998139
well I was a CNA in training and we had clinicals at a nursing home and we were getting trained on putting depends on seniors, but we were using each other. So we had to lay in a bed and act immobile while someone rolled us around putting on depends and getting us dressed (we wore shorts and a tank top and they had to put on depends, pants and a tshirt) well when it was my turn they got my depends on and my pants on and the fire alarm went off. So in my diaper I had to help get resedents out the building, well I was helping one edderly lady down the stairs and she tripped and i fell trying to support her. I was put in the ambulance to get taken to the hospital becuase i had a huge knot on my head, and a cut on my leg. well they took off my pants and yep....i wa sstill wearing the diaper. one of the nurses asked if i was even a resident! lol
437194
If you're talking about nursing homes & group homes, I think it's very, very wrong.  Disgusting in fact...in every form, whether it be verbal or physical abuse.  I used to work in a group home & I'm very passionate about such a topic, I guess.  But I won't go off on a rant here.\n\nIf you're speaking about residents as in tenants being abused by landlords, then I would wonder about the circumstances of the situation.  I now work in real estate/rentals and know from first hand experience that some people will cry "abuse" when you try to enforce the rules, no matter how fairly you enforce them.  For instance, I don't think it's abuse to tell a resident that they can't use the pool at midnight when it's in the lease & rules that the pool is locked at 11 pm.  But if you're talking about a landlord whacking a tenant with a lead pipe...that's a whole different story.  :)
551894
They think that the elderly should work until they drop. \n\nIt's the pull yourself up by your boostraps mentality. If you can't take care of yourself it's not their problem or the government's problem.
450282
Caring for the elderly Definitely!!!
537811
Most of them have Parkinson's and a host of other ailments. They take several prescription medications and some of these meds have horrible side effects.  Some senior citizens may have neurological problems and some of these cause tremors too.  I work in a Retirement Home and we just try to make them as comfortable as possible.
494929
The system as it exists today forces families to place their elderly loved ones in nursing homes.  It is a racket.  If my mother would have been allowed to pay me just half what medicaid is having to pay the nursing home I could have afforded to quit my job and stay home so my mother could have continued to live with us.  Instead as law dictates, when she required more care than we could offer while remaining employed she was forced to go to a nursing home where in just 4 months all of her life savings was depleted.  Now that she is flat broke medicaid will take over paying the nursing home.  Of course it is not a nice posh facility because they want more than medicaid.  My mother has Alzheimer's and it is terrible that she is now surrounded by strangers in a strange place.  The problem I see isn't that medicaid wont pay enough it is that the laws about how she could choose to spend her own money for care are to strict and skewed in nursing facilities favor over family.
196250
Alzheimer's is pretty major in the elderly.  They forget and become agressive.
82480
yes i have been in most of my life and it's not what others expect depends on the state and the facility u are put in along with the care u recive there i agree some of them should be closed down due to the things that happends in there i was rped and locked in rooms, chained down to the bed and given muscle relaxors just because the nurses didnt want to be bothered with me other places actually listened to me and what was going on so it just depends on the place and the people that are running it
407455
That's not gross that's glorious! We should all be so lucky. \nYeah, I used to work at a retirement comm. and I met loads of feisty seniors.