NO NURSING HOME FOR ME.

[powderman]

February 22, 2019  ·
No nursing home for me.... I’ll be checking into a Holiday Inn!
With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when we get old and too feeble.
I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.
Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon.
That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.
Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.
Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.
$5-worth of tips a day and you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.
The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).
To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there.
While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today .
And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.
Want to see Hawaii ? They have Holiday Inn there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem.. They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience.
The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance . . . Or the undertaker.
If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.
The grand-kids can use the pool.
What more could I ask for?
So, when I reach that golden age, I'll face it with a grin.

[Argent 88]

When I first retired I filled for being the maintenance man for the guy who usually did the job, but he was in the hospital. It was a horrible place the way those people were treated. Dirty , stunk, bad plumbing. I didn't last two weeks before I walked out?

[Mule 11]

Sounds like a great plan...

[Lloyd Smale]

i qualify for the veterans home for free and there is a real nice one near here. that said I would rather die then have to leave my home and be taken care of like a child. Problem with my train of thought is God doesnt always give us that option. Id have to say if your in good enough shape that you can live alone in a motel with the only help being cleaning your room and a free breakfast that you could probably get by at home with a bit of home care. Old folks homes are for two types of people. Both who i detest. One is the social butterflies that need other people to talk to and mingle with. Thats not me. The others are the people that really cant take care of themselves like bed ridden people or people that have lost there faculties and i dont want to be around either of those types of people. I would NEVER put my parents in one either unless they wanted it. But they have about the same opinion of them as I do. My dad is 90 and ma is 87. They get by with help from my 3 sisters that live close to them and they have a house cleaner in once a week. Dads a tough old sob and still cooks and even has a drivers licience that he can drive 30 miles a day with so he can and does still do grocery shopping and can run to camp. Ma isnt in good shape. Shes crippled up enough where its wheel chair from bed to the recliner and she spends probably 3/4s of her day in bed. But she still prefers that to an old folks home. 

[DDZ]

When my wife had her brain injury. I spent almost 2 years going to the nursing home every evening after work, and on weekends, while she recovered enough to get her home. It was literally the saddest place I have ever seen.  All the residents drugged to the point they are half asleep. No one comes to visit a large percentage of the people there. The people there pretty much just existed.  During that time, the nursing home was cutting costs by reducing employees, and the ones that suffered from that was the residents, because they got less care. At that time the cost of nursing home stay was around $4000 per month.   

[Doublebass73]

I delivered newspapers to a nursing home when I was 12. It was an awful experience seeing people living like that. I would much prefer to be dead than be in one of those.

[ironglows]

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  My wife suffered from Parkinsons, and spent time in a local nursing home before she passed away.  Had that local nursing home been like that, I would never have left her there.

   That nursing home, run by our county, is about a mile from my home.  The patients are treated with care, and the staff better be polite and considerate with the residents..or they can go !

  Residents have nurse escorted day trips to stores and events.  No, they are not all jolly..I wouldn't be either, the way some suffer through various maladies.
 
   Admittedly, I believe my county has a very large share of decent people...even at the county seat !

  Beware the privately run homes...that is, 'for profit' nursing homes. Not always, but they often scrimp on the

   field trips, snacks, and other "extras" !

[oldandslow]

My mother spent a little over the last six years of her life in a nursing home. For almost all those years she didn't know where she was or who I or anyone else in her family was as dementia had a very firm hold on her. She couldn't walk any more and there was no way my wife and could have provided the around the clock care she received. Not all nursing homes are bad as they took very good care of her. Maybe because it's a small town makes a difference. Everyone knows what going on about everything and everyone.

I agree that nursing homes are depressing places for the able bodied to to visit or work. A few are there for help recovering from some illness or trauma and will go home but most are simply unable to care for themselves and waiting to die. The state of NM makes their nursing students work in these facilities before being able to complete their degree and it results in a lot of students deciding to quit and and go into something else. My grand daughter was working on becoming a nurse and she didn't make it through the nursing home stint. She said it was just too hard to watch people you had come to care for waste away and die and could do nothing to help. She would have made an excellent nurse if she had been allowed to get a degree without the nursing home duty and would probably have been able to deal with the death thing with maturity. As it is she became a beautician and is a darn good one. She gives grandpa as good or better haircut than any he ever got from a barber. My gain, the nursing profession's loss.

[DDZ]

Ever since I saw for an extended time, of the operation inside a nursing home. I give the employees a lot of credit, especially the aids who work directly with the residents. Those are very special people to be able to do those jobs, with what little pay they receive.

[Dee]

Ever since I saw for an extended time, of the operation inside a nursing home. I give the employees a lot of credit, especially the aids who work directly with the residents. Those are very special people to be able to do those jobs, with what little pay they receive.

100%

[Mule 11]

Ever since I saw for an extended time, of the operation inside a nursing home. I give the employees a lot of credit, especially the aids who work directly with the residents. Those are very special people to be able to do those jobs, with what little pay they receive.

There are many very decent people working in these (Homes)? There are also some that deserve a knee on there neck. If ya follow...

[Dee]

Charlie your Holiday Day Inn vs a nursing home sounds like a pistol of an idea, right up to the point of having your 2nd, or 3rd, "accident" on the carpet, or in the bed, at which point you'll be shown the exit.
Nurses, and nurses aids accept it, maids? Not so much.

[Mule 11]

Hard to get worse than a spoil sport...

[ironglows]

From O&S...

  " Maybe because it's a small town makes a difference. Everyone knows what going on about everything and everyone."
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   That is quite true with the local home I spoke about, and residents there are actually cared for by friends and neighbors!