"Sorry, Ma'am. I'm not authorized to give a shit without permission..."

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The Good Reverend Roger

#15
March 05, 2013, 06:39:58 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on March 05, 2013, 06:36:28 PM
For what it's worth I can anecdotally back up Cain's experience in 4/5 large towns/cities in Scotland and England.

I now consider the word "Hospice" synonymous with "Fucked". The laziest google will give you a multitude of tales from across the UK about various "care homes" for the elderly or mentally infirm that will make you loathe your fellow man a little more. I would posit that if it's happening this widely here, it's not just the UK.

The only experience I have with nursing homes (seeing the inside) was in Newfoundland and Ontario.  The nursing homes were clean, well-staffed, and the folks living there seemed happy.

In Illinois and Arizona, they look - from the outside - like factories.  Which offers some nightmare fuel, for those of us with grim imaginations. 
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Anna Mae Bollocks

#16
March 05, 2013, 07:59:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 05, 2013, 04:37:02 PM
Hah, some of the most mean-spirited people I've had the misfortune to know had the job title of "care assistants".  They gave so little fucks they probably wouldn't even bother to piss on someone if they were on fire.

I'm sure the profession tends to attract people who are flat-out sadistic. Invalids aren't very good at standing up for themselves.
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Junkenstein

#17
March 05, 2013, 08:20:00 PM
On the factory aspect, the UK has had an aging population for quite some time. The prospect of industrial capacity care homes is probably closer here than many would like to think. Mainly they don't like to think about it as you may have to consider it happening to YOU if you live long enough.
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Elder Iptuous

#18
March 05, 2013, 08:57:15 PM
I was just thinking about this the other day, and it seems to me that there's some kind of huge shift that going to happen.
the generation in these wretched retirement homes is about the first that modern medicine has made it a reliable occurance to outlive ones quality of life for an extended period, isn't it?
So their baby boomer children are stuck witnessing and trying to deal with this horror.  and then their kids are seeing them deal with that shit.....
and my wife and i, and all the friends that we know (that aren't opposed on religious grounds) feel without any compunction, that we will lovingly off each other at any point that our quality of life starts to turn to shit in this way.  we sure as fuck aren't going to end up in a home.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#19
March 05, 2013, 09:52:17 PM
My mom used to be a nurse and worked in a nursing home for awhile. While she was there, three of the nurses were raped by one of the old men and they were all fired for putting themselves in an unsafe situation. He hit my mom in the face and arms several times one day and left bruises the size of oranges. It was well-known that the man was demented as heck but still crazy strong so no one was supposed to be in his room alone. But there was only one nurse per shift for awhile . . . so yeah.

A lot of the people there died from neglect and I think one was suffocated by her daughter. It was just a fucked up place. Mom got out as soon as she could and got a job as an in-home caregiver.

Anyway. Yes. I don't have any positive stories to add about group homes. I think the in-home care-giver thing might work better but I suppose it's just as prone to fuckery as everything else we do is.
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#20
March 07, 2013, 09:38:37 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 05, 2013, 09:52:17 PM
My mom used to be a nurse and worked in a nursing home for awhile. While she was there, three of the nurses were raped by one of the old men

I just gotta ask...


AT THE SAME TIME???
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Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#21
March 07, 2013, 09:56:22 AM
Quote from: Balls Wellington on March 07, 2013, 09:38:37 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on March 05, 2013, 09:52:17 PM
My mom used to be a nurse and worked in a nursing home for awhile. While she was there, three of the nurses were raped by one of the old men

I just gotta ask...


AT THE SAME TIME???

Nope. But two in the same day, on different shifts. If I remember right. He was spry but not that spry.
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Slick and Deranged Wombat of Manhood Questioning
Hulking Dormouse of Lust and DESPAIR™
Gatling Geyser of Rainbow AIDS

"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

navkat

#22
March 07, 2013, 01:09:12 PM
The amount of fucked-up in that story is too much for me to process all at once. Come back later, please.

The Good Reverend Roger

#23
March 15, 2013, 02:43:25 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#24
March 15, 2013, 03:20:14 PM
Oh, man.  Someone's getting sued...

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#25
March 15, 2013, 10:02:07 PM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#26
March 15, 2013, 10:19:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 15, 2013, 03:20:14 PM
Oh, man.  Someone's getting sued...

Not gonna happen, actually.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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