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Nursing Home Television Ads

Posted on | September 15, 2005 |

You know what I think is odd, is the nursing ads on the tv. Most of them are saying that they are great place but you know who makes these testmonials? The relatives of the ones in the nursing homes. I rarely see people who live htere make the commercials. There is a couple- theya re mostly the assissted living homes.

If these place are so great they should have the actual people who live there say how great it is. I am pretty disturbed by this line of ads. Maybe some are really great places. I don’t know. It seems like to me that family thinks these are great places.

I used to work for a company that used to make products for Alzeihemr’s patients. It was a system where the patient wore a bracelet and when they tried to leave the alarm would sound and the doors would shut. I had to go a nursing home once to deliver the bracelets. I did not see nay other eldery walking through the nursing home. All I seen was nurses and other workers.

I hope I never have to put my parents in a nursing home. I always imagined them pretty lonely and boring places. The only way I would put them in a home is if the developed dementia or alzeihemer’s. Becasue I don’t have the skills to take care of that.

My great grandmother who is now 93 went into an assissted living home about maybe close to 10 years ago. She loves it there. She still lives in her own little place and they ahve many things for the residents to do. She lived with her son and his wife when my great grandfather was still living. after he died, she wanted to go and live in an assisted living home.

I think that is the best way to go. Let the parents pick a place to go, if that is what the whole family decides. It is the best of both worlds. Independent living with the comfort of somone there to help them out.

For anyone who has been reading my story. Tommorrow I will do chapter7 of GI Blues Song.

Have a nice day!

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