[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, SCA Assisted living!

[Angie Malone]

After reading this I am glad I visited my aunt in the nursing home she was
put in.  It didn't smell bad and was sort of a nice place. Although I think
I did feel the despair and wasteland.  Not so much for her because she had
dementia--which if I understood correctly is a lot like Altzheimer's--but
some of the other patients, who could really live in an apartment by
themselves as long as someone checked on them once or twice a day to make
sure they ate and took their medication.

It was very expensive $6000 a month.  The nursing home is located in NJ
which may be one of the reasons why it is more.  They also according to my
other Aunt who was taking care of her to be very highly rated.

I have to admit I wasn't offended by the joking, mostly because I don't
think of a nursing home as assisted living.  Assisted living to me I though
was defined as apartment living with an aide who checks on you and a
nursing home is a hospital like setting where there are aides and nurses.

That could be just me defining terms the wrong way.

I can't help myself and apologize in advance for this next part.

An assisted living center could make for a lot of fun for old people.

You could be in more than one century all in the same day.  ;-)

Oh yeah the obligatory food thing applies too, you could eat a recipe from
more than one century all in the same day.

    Angeline


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gorgeous Muiredach" <muiredach at bmee.net>
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 10:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, SCA Assisted living!
>
>
> >> You know, taking the risk of being accused to be an old stick with no
>sense
> > of humour, I will say that I personally find it not funny at all to make
> > jokes about nursing homes like that.
> >
> > As part of my job, I help people escape nursing homes.  There is about 14%
> > of the nursing home population in the US that is below the age of 45.
>When
> > you enter a nursing home, the institution is allowed to take all your
> > money, whether you are on SSI at $550/month, or higher source of income
> > such as $2000 from SSDI.  Nursing home inmates receive a very chic
> > $31/month for spending money.  Less than Federal prisoners get.
> >
> > In general, the living conditions are nasty, at best.  If any of you have
> > been to a nursing home, you can identify the smell.  A putrid mixture of
> > stale urine, and despair.  Yes, you can smell the despair in the air.
> >
> > Not to mention the food in there.  There's the old joke of kids telling
> > their parents that if they don't behave they'll put them in nursing home
> > where they won't get fed meat.  Not too far from the truth.  And not a lot
> > of food they get, where there are sometimes near riots when snacks get put
>out.
> >
> > A staff of mine who uses a wheelchair goes in the homes to meet with
>people
> > who expressed a desire to leave.  He was once forbidden to leave the
> > nursing home.  THey thought he was a resident.  The administrator wasn't
> > there, so the staff were keeping him.  He finally was able to leave.  But
>I
> > ask you, is it nursing home, or jail, where people there are not allowed
>to
> > leave?
> >
> > NO ONE belongs in an institution.  With proper community support, we can
>do
> > away from nursing homes, retirement homes and the likes.  Considering that
> > in Illinois it costs about $65K to keep one person in a nursing home for a
> > year, yet that to pay for their rent and 24 hours a day or personal
> > assistance a day would cost approximately $24K/year, one cannot help but
> > question why we still have a system that is over 100 years old and quite
> > obviously not working.
> >
> > I don't believe in taking myself seriously, but there are topics that are
> > not that funny.
> >
> > "I'd rather go to jail than die in a nursing home".  FREE OUR PEOPLE!
>NOW!!!
> >
> >
> > Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
> > Clan of Odds
> > Shire of Forth Castle, Meridies
> > mka
> > Nicolas Steenhout
> > "You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry
> >
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