A lot to think about : Wandering through a Care Home

https://www.grosvenorlodgehove.co.uk/care/lifting-the-stigma-on-elderly-care ois a fact of life, from the moment we are born, we start getting older and if we are lucky enough to live to an old age, it is likely we may come to a point where we can no longer care properly for ourselves and we may need some extra support. And yet this is something none of us want to admit or even think about, but if we are all going to need it, why is there such a stigma around elderly care and what can we do to change future perspective? Perhaps, by thinking negatively about getting old and frail and not being able to look after ourselves we are the problem. Constantly in the media and movies, people in older age are depicted negatively, whether it’s as a burden to the family, or someone who is unable to look after themselves, the older generations do not get painted in a good light. And yet so many of us are staying healthy and active into our older years and nothing like the old frail image portr

1. [singular] : a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something. the stigma associated with mental illness = the stigma of mental illness. the stigma of being poor = the stigma of poverty. There's a social stigma attached to receiving welfare. https://www.britannica.com › stigma Stigma Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary More results

Mo st of the residents in their room alone or. many cannot even go to the toilets for change of scene Somrcan go to the dining room

if you RN nursing home are you receive very very old and got dementia if you fall out with flu or pneumonia not much incentive to get better because you cannot see a future for yourself other than what you see in these people around you sitting and watching the television or just sitting doing nothing all day long. some don't have visitotd. why get well. you will only have to go through this again and again until you die so why not die now?

since it requires two people to put someone into a wheelchair with a hoist quite frequently people are told to soil themselves. . there will be cleaned after they have soiled themselves but it won't be within the first 10 minutes or even half an hour. I'd like to know what people think

Why don't the staff meet our eyes times we are treated as less than fully human. The first visit to our room in the morning will be the night Nurse. She will bring early morning medication. At this time possibly 6 am it's likely We will not have seen anyone since 8:30 the night before and if you haven't slept that's a very long time to be alone. So you want some human contact just someone's eyes looking at you and meeting your eyes not necessarily any conversation. But they are keen to get on with their work and they don't want to engage with any individual that's my interpretation of it so they don't actually make themselves present in the room for even 2 or 3 minutes. So when they leave sometimes we feel very sad because you won't see anybody else until we get a cup of tea at maybe 7 am That's the most obvious lack but it can happen in the daytime as well that somebody is with you is he might even wash you but they don't actually yo

many people in nursing homes I'm just waiting to die. actually said to me I want to die I wish I could die. one begged me to kill hrr don't put your telative in one of these places is absolutely impossible to care for them at home. o

if you have your own room you may believe that you are got privacy. I had one drawer which I was using for my private things when several times clean it eithe how to empty 8 onto my bed without asking my permission when I was on the grounds that there might be some crumbs in it. this time while I was out of the room because they wanted to clean the floor really but when I went back we are turning all my positions not including my codes fortunately and they put books notebooks pens spectacles jewellery all jumped on my bed to anyone at all to see and cleaning woman and took out my private drawer and was about empty it onto the bed. play I was left to put everything back and during the following night I became ill with severe chest infection and I'm still ill now. I find it extremely intrusive and I never believed that no one could have the right to go through my personal belongings without me being there or without my permission. I felt assaulted. I had not realised how far they wo

in the subject of economics people who can work are called labour and their numbers from 1 to 3 up to thousands or millions of people who can work and so you can compare one country with another and st. France has got twice as much lab as as England. the people are replaceable units who moved about a at will. I wonder it is the same in a nursing home where the people are units and have to be kept clean and well fed and generally kept for but they may not be related to as individuals because that would need a lot of energy that would need a lot of energy and time. but you can see in a Christian country we cannot allow people to be treated basically as Christianity or indeed Islam or would tell us. people creation of God to be respected and treated with care. of course this is all m ideal. even if everywhere trying to treat them that way we might not be successful