Posted by:
Roger
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Date: March 26, 2016 04:34PM
I currently work as a NHA, nursing home administrator in a 120 bed facility. I have heard the exact phrase many times by the sons, daughters, friends, visiting residents "if I ever need one of these places just put a gun to my head". When I hear this I hope there are as many residents, doctors, social workers, etc possible to hears these excellent words of advice and hopefully get some kind of solution to these nursing homes other than continue to fill nursing homes with the frail, usually elderly, increasingly demented, and sometimes the younger brain injured with equally ineffective transferring, toileting, and self feeding skills. I keep thinking to myself lets get beyond the thought of being dead when you no longer can transfer safely from w/c to toilet, as an example, let's operationalize it with some sort of a numeric system where the greater the inability the higher the score. Let's just say 100 equals lethal injection. Operationalize the system into living wills to take out the guess work and move onto a better more efficient society . Because really, less face it, when you are frail, and elderly, and let's be honest, you were either too lazy, and too stupid, to save enough money to afford a private 24/7 stay at home nurse, you should be dead. Or maybe too much of an ineffective patent to have elicited the type of sacrific required to have your children take you in, again you and society is better off having you dead. Sarcasm.