I like the idea of a household model for seniors. I work at a retirement community and all of us are overloaded with state mandated regulatory paperwork and reports instead being able to spend more time enjoying our residents. 🙃
There comes a point geriatric residents need skilled care and need to be in a medical setting. Funerals are for the living assistant living appeals to the families. Nice day decor to take away guilt. I seen residents that were so far advanced with dementia that should have been sent to skill nursing suffering in memory care because that type of facility is not equipped to handle somebody that needs skill care. In a private pay facility they will keep you as long as your money doesn't run out.
No no no. The responsibility falls on the family. We would be outraged if a mother took her baby to a facility and said, "here you take care of it." They raise us from birth for 18 YEARS and the minute they need help we move them out of their home and pay strangers to take care of them. HORRIBLE!
Senior living is right up there with big pharma. If they really wanted the industry to chsnge it would. Most larger communities are owned by money hungry families with heart warming stories about how much they care without services or practices that reflect it. Senior Living has turned into a big real estste flip and a legal way to rob seniors. There are many over worked under paid employees who actually do what they do because they love the residents - unfortunately they leave the industry because they are treated just as poorly as the residents. These types of models sound impressive but they still equate to overworked under paid frontline staff.
To those who enjoy reading heavy comments: An elderly neighbor/his son might've read something I'd written to one of them in which I'd possibly implied that I'd, 'revolutionize the care industry.' I must follow through, it seems, whichever path the neighbor chooses. At least one respectable commune could be involved in the revolution. And any community built for elders/others could coexist peacefully with the First Nations. Marie Antoinettes will regard the below as crazy: Even anonymous reporting or APS *may* prove out of the question. There's a gang in the neighborhood, and they may be manipulating the elderly neighbor. And/or he's cooperating with them. Someday I may know how (un)willingly he may be involved. Allegedly he's been far from an angel in his lifetime. And/or people change. One night he bellowed from his balcony: 'Will you PLEASE help me get OUT of this??!!!' Maybe he was shouting about the cold. Either way, it's a mess. He's diminutive, Italian-American, and he walked/walks his dog at least once daily.
This is not a solution. These models don't scale and are cost-prohibitive. Not everyone has a family - let alone a loving, caring family that has the capability to provide oversight. Ultimately we need more access to assisted dying. Once you get to the point where you need assistance with daily activities, you're in a prison of your own body and probably subject to abuse from your caregivers.
This is a lot of fluff without substance. No substantive content to learn from. Nothing. This is the first negative review I left on UA-cam. The first few minutes were meaningless fluff and the subsequent discussion was rambling by an unprepared and uniquely inarticulate man. Don't waste your time.
This is amazing and we DO need more of this. I am a bit concerned about how available it will be for EVERYONE though.
I like the idea of a household model for seniors. I work at a retirement community and all of us are overloaded with state mandated regulatory paperwork and reports instead being able to spend more time enjoying our residents. 🙃
This will certainly cost more than the avetage senior can afford at this time in our society.
There comes a point geriatric residents need skilled care and need to be in a medical setting. Funerals are for the living assistant living appeals to the families. Nice day decor to take away guilt. I seen residents that were so far advanced with dementia that should have been sent to skill nursing suffering in memory care because that type of facility is not equipped to handle somebody that needs skill care. In a private pay facility they will keep you as long as your money doesn't run out.
Our society is not yet willing to decrease the war budget to increase the health budget.
GREAT VISION...
Please open something like this in San Jose, Ca, I would love to work there. 🙏🌎
No no no. The responsibility falls on the family. We would be outraged if a mother took her baby to a facility and said, "here you take care of it." They raise us from birth for 18 YEARS and the minute they need help we move them out of their home and pay strangers to take care of them. HORRIBLE!
Senior living is right up there with big pharma. If they really wanted the industry to chsnge it would. Most larger communities are owned by money hungry families with heart warming stories about how much they care without services or practices that reflect it. Senior Living has turned into a big real estste flip and a legal way to rob seniors. There are many over worked under paid employees who actually do what they do because they love the residents - unfortunately they leave the industry because they are treated just as poorly as the residents. These types of models sound impressive but they still equate to overworked under paid frontline staff.
Sounds like an ad.
To those who enjoy reading heavy comments:
An elderly neighbor/his son might've read something I'd written to one of them in which I'd possibly implied that I'd, 'revolutionize the care industry.'
I must follow through, it seems, whichever path the neighbor chooses.
At least one respectable commune could be involved in the revolution.
And any community built for elders/others could coexist peacefully with the First Nations.
Marie Antoinettes will regard the below as crazy:
Even anonymous reporting or APS *may* prove out of the question.
There's a gang in the neighborhood, and they may be manipulating the elderly neighbor.
And/or he's cooperating with them.
Someday I may know how (un)willingly he may be involved.
Allegedly he's been far from an angel in his lifetime. And/or people change.
One night he bellowed from his balcony:
'Will you PLEASE help me get OUT of this??!!!'
Maybe he was shouting about the cold. Either way, it's a mess.
He's diminutive, Italian-American, and he walked/walks his dog at least once daily.
The costs are comparable to other assisted living homes....
This was tried in Houston...cost of implementation of was too much for the "powers that be."
This is not a solution. These models don't scale and are cost-prohibitive. Not everyone has a family - let alone a loving, caring family that has the capability to provide oversight. Ultimately we need more access to assisted dying. Once you get to the point where you need assistance with daily activities, you're in a prison of your own body and probably subject to abuse from your caregivers.
exactly that's why the family has to step in and do the work themselves instead of shipping them off to strangers.
But what if you have no family?
I choose to die at 65 with dignity
@@katme8055 Uh, if only there were a way to do this easily...
He set this up in Kansas?
This is a lot of fluff without substance. No substantive content to learn from. Nothing. This is the first negative review I left on UA-cam. The first few minutes were meaningless fluff and the subsequent discussion was rambling by an unprepared and uniquely inarticulate man. Don't waste your time.
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