One night I was walking by a local nursing home, a very nice one, when I heard voices calling “Mother, mother, we love you.”
I walked around behind the building and saw a middle aged couple standing in the bushes under a large window - several feet above their heads, I imagine it was probably the lobby or a nursing area - holding up a poster-board sign. It had the woman’s name on it. I guess they hoped that the staff would see it and tell their mother.
I didn’t see anybody in the window, but they kept on waving the sign and telling their mother they loved her.
It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen in my whole life.
There was no reason and no justification for doing this to people, both to the elderly and to their families. It is practically a crime against humanity. Remember, solitary confinement is the most feared punishment of all, illegal in many countries; yet we cheerfully sentenced our elderly and helpless to it and ruthlessly carried it out.
Many of us are in a form of solitary now
Even dogs grieve
Wiley crying over Grandma’s video comes to mind
Wiley was trained to help ptsd