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I have worked in many as a care aid providin direct care to residents. I worked for 7 years in one facility that worked with advanced Alzheimer's and dementia like condition clients. I would not describe the nursing home as cruel or in-human, though to a person with sound mind it certainly would. The people who resided there simply could not live alone. They would soon be seriously hurt or die. So yes when they enter…
There are indeed excellent facilities for elder care. But there are many horrific ones, and the difference between them can be hard for outsiders to determine (whether for families, or for yourself). Case in point: My parents had one hell of a time finding good care for my grandfolk (incl. siblings of grandparents). In their state, there is an entire industry of corrupt nursing homes, which also have all sorts of "aw…
My mother and her siblings have had EXACTLY this experience with my grandfather – and they've had prior experience choosing nursing homes. It's horrible. They dope him up on who knows what medications for perceived illnesses without consulting family. Thank goodness my attentive and no-bullshit aunt discovered they were medicating him for "pneumonia" and "congestive heart failure" prescribed by a call-in quack for what turned out to be a bit of aspirated fluid. She forced them to get him off the meds and he returned to normal (modulo Alzheimer's) in days.
The whole industry is based around appearing like they're doing something to oblivious or disinterested families (which unfortunately exist), while doping their helpless patients into a slow meaningless death. There are good individuals (my folks made sure to make ties with them, else my grandfather would quite literally have died due to negligence by now), but the industry as a whole is rotten.