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Posted on 10/16/2009 9:16:28 AM PDT by Chet 99
Edited on 10/16/2009 9:17:20 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An Everett nursing home is facing a lawsuit after an elderly resident's genitals disintegrated while staff allegedly failed to act.
Charles Bradley, then 93, arrived at Everett Care & Rehabilitation in the winter of 2004, suffering from the usual maladies of old age, according to court documents. He continued to live at the nursing home until two weeks before his death, which came on March 31, 2008, when he was rushed to the emergency room with a life-threatening -- but previously undetected -- malady.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
“At the very best, nursing homes are warehouses where people wait to die.”
And, by extension, so are mobile home parks in sunny Florida or Nevada or Arizona for the over 55 crowd.
And I understand what you are saying in the other post, sometimes there is no option to nursing home, but that does not justify the negligence and sloppy treatment that goes on in some nursing homes. It borders on the criminal.
If mine ever disintegrate, just kill me.
I think offering to help, like I wrote in #76, is the best therapy and has useful outcomes.
PS - don’t misinterpret my posts as disliking nursing homes. I feel for the residents.
They are a necessary institution given today’s smaller families and disintegration of the family.
If we could root out the slovenly, the inattentive, the abusive, all would be almost well.
;)
Are you thinking of power of attorney over medical and/or finances?
Very good advice sparko! I feel for families who have no choice, and for the fueding families who fight over who thinks what is best. (The latter has happened in our family) Another idea for those who attend church, if they can, maybe some church members would volunteer to sit with the family member who’s in a nursing home for 20 mins once in a while. Visitors coming in at a variety of hours can help prevent neglect..
bump to that, ~Kim4VRWC’s~.
Plus “Visitors coming in at a variety of hours can help prevent neglect..” keeps the staff on their toes.
Maybe it was a Kenyan worker who put the “magic” powder on him that shrinks his member?
Poor man. I read the story, but missed that fact. You hate to think of a loved one spending their final days this way.
Balls!, cried the Queen, if I had two I would be King!
And the King laughed, not because he had to, but because he had two!
At that point it will be about the same thing... :)
U can think of a couple remedies for that:
Divorce or mistress. I preferred the latter.
And I think one thing that would go a long way toward that is for families to be present OFTEN. And complain when they don’t like what they see.
No, it’s called a Medicaid Trust. You can google them, but it’s a way of sheltering your assets so you qualify for govt assistance.
Oh okay, thanks, I’ve not heard of those. I have seen medicaid workers tell nursing home recipients to spend down their money so they could qualify for free nursing home care. :-/ I now understand why your husband refused.
He’s an honorable man.
Wow, scratch that nursing home off my list...
Moral Absolutes ping!
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