"pickyourpoison's friend is mistaken."
I really don't believe she's mistaken. She was an R.N. at the nursing home for several years but has now left. She told me about some of the problems the aids patients had [sores, bleeding,etc.] It was terrible.
Some of the aids patients thrash around and have to be medicated. While she was trying to give a patient a shot, he wouldn't stay still and the needle went through her glove and she punctured herself. She has been tested for aids and will have to be retested for several years.
What surprised me was that federal funding was greater for aids patients than for the elderly. I would have thought the funding would be the same for both.
Someone in the health care field could probably find out about the funding.
I wonder if they provide more funding for AIDS patients because of the inherent risk to the health care workers. (Of course, those who know everything there is to know about everything would say there is no risk. It's all just bigotry.) I also wonder if the higher costs are passed on to the health care workers who are taking those risks. I would guess that some of it is, but most of it probably goes to the facility.
It seems that I misunderstood your post about your friend and the nursing home. I read it as being a general statement about the elderly, AIDS patients, and nursing homes; that is, a comment on a general trend rather than on the situation in one particular facility. My mistake, and I beg your pardon.