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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Speaking for the entire south, we'd love to have you too. We have health care industries and Alpha Gamma Delta chapters. Just saying.
It seems like we can all say we have a responsibility in these cases. It's just hard to figure out how to deliver the services people need or even figuring out what they need if they feel that they don't want to ask or don't know who to ask.
As far as my own family, there's been a history of caring for people and assisting them in their homes until they eventually basically got sick enough to go in the hospital and not come out. But as you said, all these cases were in the same town.
Maybe I was being too hard on people earlier. Maybe it's just the times I've heard of people wanting to put their parents in a medicaid supported home, it made such an impression.
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There's that.. and the fact that I'm hopelessly in love with a man with lives in Smyrna and have been since 2000. I'm just hoping he's still single in 5 years when my youngest goes away to college
My mom was really adamant that she would not live with me under any circumstances. She was also at a point that she couldn't have been maintained medically at home. She needed more nursing care than could be provided reasonably. Her big fear was that my kids would find her when she passed and she didn't want them to go through that. She passed before we had to make a final decision. The nursing home we had picked out though was 1/4 mile from my house so I intended to be there every day and the kids were planning on walking over there after school to see grandma sometimes too. I think some of what we're seeing is simply because people are living longer and longer. Women are working outside the home so even if they moved their parent into their home, they wouldn't be supervised. Alzheimer's patients get to a point where they cannot be maintained in a family home because they can wander off while the family is sleeping, etc. I don't think we can judge people for those kinds of decisions. I DO think it's horrendous to put someone there and never go to see them.
In the case of this guy, there wasn't even anybody to move him into a safer environment. It truly is sad.