those nursing home patients didn’t have families?....that’s the gist of something like this....blood takes care of blood an no matter how much nursing homes cost, they can never ever care for a loved one as much as family...
I've worked in three different facilities. One had patients which had been there when the land was a Poor Farm. Others came from a closed down mental hospital, then the rest were ones either with issues that could not be treated at home or family couldn't.
I agree with you up to a point and a very clear and distinct line on this. Not all persons in families have the disposition to be caregivers. It doesn't make them bad persons but simply not all can do it especially long term. I say this as the former family caregiver of 32 years. I was married a few months shy of 30 years to a quadriplegic wife I married after the fact. She passed two years ago. So did my sister in a nursing home that had Dementia and required someone literally watch her 24/7. My Dad in 2011 was placed on Home Hospice with Cancer I was the primary care giver along with my Mom and a niece when she could break away from her out of state family.
In February this year my Mom entering her late 80's suffered a severe Stroke a massive bleeder.In the ER the Neurologist and ER attending doctor gave her at best 50% chance of even surviving. Within a little over two months she was gone and I did her home hospice. She developed what seemed to be a very rapid form of Dementia that progressed daily. I'm 60 now and it took it's toll physically on me this time and mentally. I hired some part time 4 hours a day three days a week private duty home health help as Mom had enough money I could. BTW I'm disabled since 1994.
If someone who doesn't have the disposition mentally and physically bad things can happen including abuse at home. I saw it happen and had to step in and do intervention which meant an assisted living Memory Care Unit. I was there several times a week watching for any signs of abuse and I knew who to report it too had it happened. It was for my sibling.
Nursing Homes have lots of injuries due to state and federal laws written by Liberal Fools. The biggest is the restraint law. I did put my Mom in a nursing home 21 days for one reason. It was a rehab facility with physical and occupational therapy department well staffed and equipped and that was the reason she was there. It was her best shot for recovery and coming back home independent. She simply wasn't recovering. One evening I got a call I hadn't been home but a few minutes. She fell out of her wheelchair and hit her head. I went to the ER she had hit her elbow first and had a pump knot.
Restraining a patient so they don't fall and injure themselves takes an act of congress. This policy started in the early 1990's. It's killed far more patients than any other cause other than their natural death. Three days later she was at my house on Palliative Care at first which is still trying for recovery but gets the family home visits by nurses etc. Before the fall happened they had already told me she was not progressing enough to be allowed anymore rehab time.
I promised my wife she would not be put in a nursing home and when her spinal stroke hit she was 35 and working in a nursing home as a very dedicated CNA. I told my dad I would take care of him and when time came take care of my Mom. I'm thankful for the blessing I was able to do it. But I also understand not all persons are capable. A son for example caring for a mother as sole caregiver it can have some very uncomfortable events you have to set aside mentally to do the task.