They’re in a nursing home for a reason. After personally having had parents in nursing home, both my own and my wife’s, we couldn’t have provided the care or have the facilities to provide for them in anything close to what they received in the nursing home.
If we could, they wouldn’t have been in the nursing home to begin with.
I understand that. I am more talking about those that are not in the assisted living area and are there to be with friends, socialize and play cards or hang out at the pub and eat buffets. Now they can’t see them and are locked in there rooms.
I didn’t put my parents in a nursing home or any other government facility. They begged me not to.
They died here in our home.
But you do you.
We didn’t count on the nursing home or the government. We take care of our own.
You know, everyone has their issues and situations. Life is like that. But anyone who tries to justify not taking care of their parents, or putting their parents in a home, well, there you are and I will never understand that.
We take care of our family.
I “cared for” my parents and I thank God every day that I did. I couldn’t imagine not doing that. Who does that?
My husband and my daughters, took care of my parents, as they should. And as my parents said to me, I say to my adult kids, please don’t ever put me in a nursing home. Ever.
Who does that? I know it’s not PC. But who does that to their parents, to anyone they say they love?
Nope.
Well, we provided that care. And yes it was hard. Awful. But we don’t throw away our family.
You can call it whatever you want. I didn’t and would never put my parents in a nursing home. Nor would I put my kids in daycare.
They’re in a nursing home because their family isn’t taking care of them for whatever reason.
“we couldn’t have provided the care or have the facilities to provide for them in anything close to what they received in the nursing home”.
Keep telling yourself that.
I can understand that....my beef is with people who constantly belittle nursing home staff when they refuse to take care of their parents themselves....its an almost impossible job...