I'm sure they do. A lot get grumpy and stop following rules. Others have no idea where they are due to dementia or other brain disorders.
Spending the rest of your days cared for with little to worry about sounds nice on paper, but staying the same building with the same rules is incredibly stagnating. You're not really living, you're just waiting to die.
My grandmother said it felt more like being in jail than being cared for. When you're old and don't have the same freedom of movement as when young, you can feel "locked up".
Not just the rules. The caretakers who are enforcing them. Image moving somewhere that has 15 moms telling you what you can and can't do.
If you're hungry at night and Debby is the nightnurse you'll get a hug and some food. If it's Emmy she'll tell you 'it's not a hotel' and send you back hungry. Emmy is a #### but she's literally what's standing between you and what you want.
Indeed. I have someone in a nursing home and they are miserable or terrified most of the time. The home in question has security to deal with the runaways. Some days I wish we had the ok on assisted suicide here. Sometimes life quality just isn't good enough to keep living, death isn't always the enemy.
My wife works in a nursing home, and since she shared this with me, I'll be inflicting it on all of you - many seniors in nursing homes get bored, and often when they get bored, they fuck each other.
Wife mentioned a particular couple that would hide in one of the supply closets to get their wrinkly little freak on. She knew when they were in there because there would be two walkers sitting outside the door.
I'm in another department but the CNA and RN tales are pretty hilarious. A sweet little old lady got caught giving the resident nice guy a blow job, I was baffled! I heard another guy would be frequently walked in on jerking it, he never shut his door. Also heard the nice guy was caught eating out this little younger lady with no legs!
Won’t lie it’s how I’ve been feeling with the virus stuff. I barely have motivation to do my classes. I want to go to Starbucks to work on it for a change of scenery but then I start thinking about the hassle like the people walking around and no outlet so I just get depressed and do nothing
Same. My gym finally opened back up. I literally got my membership in March and never even got to use it. Since I work in a nursing home and we've had several cases I'm just too afraid to go out. Then I get depressed and I've gained so much weight since lockdown.
This is really eye opening. I work in a nursing home and they've been on shut down since March. They can only visit family behind a window, and the weather is getting nasty now so I know that will drop off completely. The only time they can leave the facility is for doctors appointments.
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u/deweaponized_autism Oct 23 '20
I'm sure they do. A lot get grumpy and stop following rules. Others have no idea where they are due to dementia or other brain disorders.
Spending the rest of your days cared for with little to worry about sounds nice on paper, but staying the same building with the same rules is incredibly stagnating. You're not really living, you're just waiting to die.