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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 5797098" data-attributes="member: 49065"><p>Truth be know: "They are ALL (Ghetto) nursing homes"...The better ones just put on a good front, but behind those doors..</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>So True..Going through it with my Dad, ex-military (27 years), two retirement checks and etc...Smart as a whip at 93, his legs are starting to go. Technically he did everything right with his investments and life choices and made wise decisions with his money for him and his children' children, now he is facing paying over 6,000 dollars a month for a nursing home. The system is stacked, anybody considering to wait for retirement for a few hundred dollars is a fool, particularly at UPS where it is a game of attrition. If the work itself doesn't get you your advancing age will, it is almost a guarantee that most of us will be forced out, either you or your spouse will develop a major health issue...your retirement will be on you in a minute after that.. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sounds like you got a glimpse...Been through enough of them visiting my mother in law...The major problem is that these homes causes major burn out with their staff, even with a good heart the nurses and staff are required to do too much without any real hope for their patients. It is a business plain and simple, a meat department in every area, it is so easy to fall through the safety nets and no one cares, especially the health care bureaucrat. Everybody expects to go down swinging on their own terms, guessing perhaps that only 2 percent every do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have a friend's wife last 5 years in a nursing home with dementia, again a nice facility, she was in real bad shape, strapped to a bed, unable to feed herself, etc, etc. He was considered a rich man and did everything correctly similar to my dad, he was forced to take a second mortgage on his property to pay for her care. He and his kids went through hell monetary and mentally. Also saw a good man go through ALS, retired 3 years before his illness was discovered..he thought he beat the system..it took about 2 years before he passes, he was basically a vegetable physically but still had his wits about him, only 70 years of age. His wife was the only caretaker till the end, trying to keep his assets in tact, went over to help a little and I marveled how she took care of him...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 5797098, member: 49065"] Truth be know: "They are ALL (Ghetto) nursing homes"...The better ones just put on a good front, but behind those doors.. So True..Going through it with my Dad, ex-military (27 years), two retirement checks and etc...Smart as a whip at 93, his legs are starting to go. Technically he did everything right with his investments and life choices and made wise decisions with his money for him and his children' children, now he is facing paying over 6,000 dollars a month for a nursing home. The system is stacked, anybody considering to wait for retirement for a few hundred dollars is a fool, particularly at UPS where it is a game of attrition. If the work itself doesn't get you your advancing age will, it is almost a guarantee that most of us will be forced out, either you or your spouse will develop a major health issue...your retirement will be on you in a minute after that.. Sounds like you got a glimpse...Been through enough of them visiting my mother in law...The major problem is that these homes causes major burn out with their staff, even with a good heart the nurses and staff are required to do too much without any real hope for their patients. It is a business plain and simple, a meat department in every area, it is so easy to fall through the safety nets and no one cares, especially the health care bureaucrat. Everybody expects to go down swinging on their own terms, guessing perhaps that only 2 percent every do. I have a friend's wife last 5 years in a nursing home with dementia, again a nice facility, she was in real bad shape, strapped to a bed, unable to feed herself, etc, etc. He was considered a rich man and did everything correctly similar to my dad, he was forced to take a second mortgage on his property to pay for her care. He and his kids went through hell monetary and mentally. Also saw a good man go through ALS, retired 3 years before his illness was discovered..he thought he beat the system..it took about 2 years before he passes, he was basically a vegetable physically but still had his wits about him, only 70 years of age. His wife was the only caretaker till the end, trying to keep his assets in tact, went over to help a little and I marveled how she took care of him... [/QUOTE]
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