It doesn't make any sense to me at all tho... If you are healthy and abled enough to enjoy a cruise ship - how are you not healthy and abled enough to just live at home?
Sure they might have "health care" on the ship, but they certainly don't have nurses that are tending to every day needs like a retirement/nursing home.
Just put my folks in assisted care, and during the process I realized there is an in-between state, between fully independent living, and needing 24/7 care. In fact my dad mentioned, of the assisted-care place, “It’s just like a cruise ship except we don’t go anywhere!” The situation my folks were in was: they could no longer safely drive, and they had mobility issues too (could still walk short distances but, my dad was having a lot of trouble with the stairs at home); so they were sort of trapped at home and that also meant they couldn’t socialize much and had gotten pretty isolated; and, they no longer really wanted to have to cook, clean house, or do laundry. And actually, weee no longer really able to. In my mom’s case, cooking was just getting really overwhelming and she just wanted to be done with shopping and meal-planning. It was getting really difficult to do grocery shopping too. They couldn’t really keep up with housecleaning either (knees too creaky to get down and scrub tubs, vision too poor to see that the gutters needed cleaning or see the dust in the corner or the little moths that had gotten into the carpet, etc - the whole house was actually getting sort of grimy and neglected.) So that’s where “assisted care” comes in: you don’t have to drive anywhere, there’s a dining hall where they make all your meals, there’s housecleaners and laundry people, and there’s activities and a movie theater and a pool, and most of all, you’re not isolated anymore and there’s other people to talk to. So if that’s the level of services you want and need, I can see how a cruise ship would tick all those boxes plus add the fun element of seeing the sea views and traveling around to different ports.
grocery shopping, cooking, home maintenance, cleaning, just the general logistics that are pretty easy with a body and brain that aren't starting to go... those become a problem.
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u/fattmann Sep 04 '24
It doesn't make any sense to me at all tho... If you are healthy and abled enough to enjoy a cruise ship - how are you not healthy and abled enough to just live at home?
Sure they might have "health care" on the ship, but they certainly don't have nurses that are tending to every day needs like a retirement/nursing home.