Important info regarding one of the places where we file our old folks: "41 Action News Investigators have uncovered more information about the Northland nursing home where an Alzheimer's patient walked away over the weekend. We found two negligence lawsuits filed against the center twice within a month in 2011."
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Nursing homes get sued all the time. One of the best ones in town let my dad fall on his head on the way to the bathrooom, but didn't have a strap around his chest to hold onto.
ReplyDeleteHe hit his head, stroked, couldn't swallow. But he hated being in a nursing home. I didn't put a feeding tube in him because he wouldn't have liked it much. He'd already told me at lunchtime once, "man should not live this way" when we saw an elderly woman being spoonfed what amounted to babyfood.
Sadly, the media's not interested in real journalism affecting us baby boomers as we say goodbye to our WWII age parents. It's easier to just run murders, fires, car wrecks, and news releases.
Right about the time you've buried ONE parent, learned a few things before you bury the OTHER one.... then when you get pretty good about hard decisions, and hospice, and Medicaid beds, and letting them go... well, you've completely run out of parents!
If your parents are in a nursing home, visit them NOT LESS than weekly, on a schedule. Better every other day.
And if you're getting on in years, get your medical and financial affairs in order, face end-of- life decisions and plans with your kids head-on, choose the right- thinking one to manage these things.
Give your money to your grandchildren at least 7 years early, putting them in school. The only difference between a Medicaid bed, and a private-pay bed is a roommate. In either case, unless you're very wealthy at a VERY high dollar establishment, nursing home care is going to suck unless your kids are there every day!
Don't let the doctors prolong your death just because they CAN! You have to decide. Do you want to live a few more months or use that money to put all your grandkids through college? But you have to PLAN...not decide that at the last minute!
You will NOT live forever so take care of those you love a decade early if your savings are modest!
Moreover, if you're not having FUN in or out of a nursing home, then sign a DNR statement and reject fancy surgeries and procedures that just prolong the agony of waiting for death. Do it before your mind goes!
Anon 12:39,
ReplyDeleteThese are the wisest words that I have ever read on this subject.
Thank you.