In a nursing home in West Bloomfield, MI, my mother was waiting, and waiting, for an aide to answer her call bell and help her to the bathroom. She is only in the rehab part but it's still just a nursing home.
They don't care. They are really busy and hey have a lot of residents here. You’ll have to wait your turn.” is said on an hourly basis.
Nursing home staff and family members tangle — how could it be otherwise? Family members, doing something no one ever really wants to do, grapple with stress, guilt and raw emotion as they turn daily care for a loved one over to strangers. And virtually all nursing homes are chronically short-staffed, with too few aides and nurses scurrying to help too many residents, who are more impaired and suffer higher rates of dementia than their peers a couple of decades ago. Even staffers who want to provide warm, personal attention rarely have the time.
Nursing homes Do NOT Care about your loved ones...IF you care about your family member you will NOT place them in a nursing home.
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