Let's face it. Care of the elderly has progressively deteriorated over the past 30+ years.

If you're wealthy, very wealthy, no sweat. You can pay the price, a hefty price, for awesome care in beautiful total care facilities throughout the USA. You can easily get in as long as you have the $$$$. You can start out in "Independent Living," where you have a beautiful cottage or a condo. Included is healthcare, meals, happy hours, walking paths, activities...you name it, all for a hefty price. Then, sooner or later, you advance to the next level - Assisted Living, and from there you wind up in Total Care. Not too shabby of a way to end your life. After you're dead and buried, the selfish grown children, who more often than not hate one another, trash all the keepsakes and fight over any money that's left.

The rest of us have the pleasure of residing in below average to atrocious nursing homes...proper term these days is ECF (Extended Care Facility). The nursing care has been far from adequate for 30+ years in the majority of these places, and they have ALWAYS been short staffed. Now, it is worse than ever. Medical care in general is worse than ever. With or without CoVID, the quality of care whether it be in an acute care hospital or an ECF has been in decline (as stated for the 3rd time) for 30+ years. The CoVID LAME excuse has made it worse.

Unless you TRULY need emergent care, try to STAY away from hospitals. Also, designate an advocate...someone who you trust and has a good head on their shoulder. Now, more than ever, it's time to focus on health and how to improve it with simple lifestyle changes. It's only going to get worse. Lastly, take care of your elderly loved ones. Do your very best not to abandon them. Get extended family and close friends involved. ASK for help. If a nursing home is the only option, as it often can be, visit them and let them know that you care. It could be any one of us in that nursing home someday.

Let's face it. Care of the elderly has progressively deteriorated over the past 30+ years.

If you're wealthy, very wealthy, no sweat. You can pay the price, a hefty price, for awesome care in beautiful total care facilities throughout the USA. You can easily get in as long as you have the $$$$. You can start out in "Independent Living," where you have a beautiful cottage or a condo. Included is healthcare, meals, happy hours, walking paths, activities...you name it, all for a hefty price. Then, sooner or later, you advance to the next level - Assisted Living, and from there you wind up in Total Care. Not too shabby of a way to end your life. After you're dead and buried, the selfish grown children, who more often than not hate one another, trash all the keepsakes and fight over any money that's left.

The rest of us have the pleasure of residing in below average to atrocious nursing homes...proper term these days is ECF (Extended Care Facility). The nursing care has been far from adequate for 30+ years in the majority of these places, and they have ALWAYS been short staffed. Now, it is worse than ever. Medical care in general is worse than ever. With or without CoVID, the quality of care whether it be in an acute care hospital or an ECF has been in decline (as stated for the 3rd time) for 30+ years. The CoVID LAME excuse has made it worse.

Unless you TRULY need emergent care, try to STAY away from hospitals. Also, designate an advocate...someone who you trust and has a good head on their shoulder. Now, more than ever, it's time to focus on health and how to improve it with simple lifestyle changes. It's only going to get worse. Lastly, take care of your elderly loved ones. Do your very best not to abandon them. Get extended family and close friends involved. ASK for help. If a nursing home is the only option, as it often can be, visit them and let them know that you care. It could be any one of us in that nursing home someday.

Let's face it. Care of the elderly has progressively deteriorated over the past 30+ years.

If you're wealthy, very wealthy, no sweat. You can pay the price, a hefty price, for awesome care in beautiful total care facilities throughout the USA. You can easily get in as long as you have the $$$$. You can start out in "Independent Living," where you have a beautiful cottage or a condo. Included is healthcare, meals, happy hours, walking paths, activities...you name it, all for a hefty price. Then, sooner or later, you advance to the next level - Assisted Living, and from there you wind up in Total Care. Not too shabby of a way to end your life. After you're dead and buried, the selfish grown children, who more often than not hate one another, trash all the keepsakes and fight over any money that's left.

The rest of us have the pleasure of residing in below average to atrocious nursing homes...proper term these days is ECF (Extended Care Facility). The nursing care has been far from adequate for 30+ years in the majority of these places, and they have ALWAYS been short staffed. Now, it is worse than ever. Medical care in general is worse than ever. With or without CoVID, the quality of care whether it be in an acute care hospital or an ECF has been in decline (as stated for the 3rd time) for 30+ years. The CoVID LAME excuse has made it worse.

Unless you TRULY need emergent care, try to STAY away from hospitals. Also, designate an advocate...someone who you trust and has a good head on their shoulder. Now, more than ever, it's time to focus on health and how to improve it with simple lifestyle changes. It's only going to get worse. Lastly, take care of your elderly loved ones. Do your very best not to abandon them. Get extended family and close friends involved. ASK for help. If a nursing home is the only option, as it often can be, visit them and let them know that you care. It could be any one of us someday.

Let's face it. Care of the elderly has progressively deteriorated over the past 30+ years.

If you're wealthy, very wealthy, no sweat. You can pay the price, a hefty price, for awesome care in beautiful total care facilities throughout the USA. You can easily get in as long as you have the $$$$. You can start out in "Independent Living," where you have a beautiful cottage or a condo. Included is healthcare, meals, happy hours, walking paths, activities...you name it, all for a hefty price. Then, sooner or later, you advance to the next level - Assisted Living, and from there you wind up in Total Care. Not too shabby of a way to end your life. After you're dead and buried, the selfish grown children, who more often than not hate one another, trash all the keepsakes and fight over any money that's left.

The rest of us have the pleasure of residing in below average to atrocious nursing homes...proper term these days is ECF (Extended Care Facility). The nursing care has been far from adequate (as stated for the 3rd time) for 30+ years in the majority of these places, and they have ALWAYS been short staffed. Now, it is worse than ever. Medical care in general is worse than ever. With or without CoVID, the quality of care whether it be in an acute care hospital or an ECF has been in decline, as stated for 30+ years. The CoVID LAME excuse has made it worse.

Unless you TRULY need emergent care, try to STAY away from hospitals. Also, designate an advocate...someone who you trust and has a good head on their shoulder. Now, more than ever, it's time to focus on health and how to improve it with simple lifestyle changes. It's only going to get worse. Lastly, take care of your elderly loved ones. Do your very best not to abandon them. Get extended family and close friends involved. ASK for help. If a nursing home is the only option, as it often can be, visit them and let them know that you care. It could be any one of us someday.

Let's face it. Care of the elderly has progressively deteriorated over the past 30+ years.

If you're wealthy, very wealthy, no sweat. You can pay the price, a hefty price, for awesome care in beautiful total care facilities throughout the USA. You can easily get in as long as you have the $$$$. You can start out in "Independent Living," where you have a beautiful cottage or a condo. Included is healthcare, meals, happy hours, walking paths, activities...you name it, all for a hefty price. Then, sooner or later, you advance to the next level - Assisted Living, and from there you wind up in Total Care. Not too shabby of a way to end your life. After you're dead and buried, the selfish grown children, who more often than not hate one another, trash all the keepsakes and fight over any money that's left.

The rest of us have the pleasure of residing in below average to atrocious nursing homes...proper term these days is ECF (Extended Care Facility). The nursing care has been far from adequate for 30+ years in the majority of these places, and they have ALWAYS been short staffed. Now, it is worse than ever. Medical care in general is worse than ever. With or without CoVID, the quality of care whether it be in an acute care hospital or an ECF has been in decline, as stated, for 30+ years. The CoVID LAME excuse has made it worse.

Unless you TRULY need emergent care, try to STAY away from hospitals. Also, designate an advocate...someone who you trust and has a good head on their shoulder. Now, more than ever, it's time to focus on health and how to improve it with simple lifestyle changes. It's only going to get worse. Lastly, take care of your elderly loved ones. Do your very best not to abandon them. Get extended family and close friends involved. ASK for help. If a nursing home is the only option, as it often can be, visit them and let them know that you care. It could be any one of us someday.