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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)
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@sueinmn

Both my grandma and mom ate backwards in their final years. Mom & her tablemates got so many people doing it in their assisted living that the staff stopped putting dessert on the tables before meals and made them wait until after dinner was cleared! My daughter was the staff RN and she said too many ate dessert and soup and skipped the meal, making crazy blood sugar issues for the diabetic residents.
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jude07 | @jude07 | Nov 20, 2020

I understand the blood sugar concern. It’s tough when you are the RN and the residents just want to go off track “eating backward”. Your daughter has to look at the medical side. Being a social worker, I lean more toward the residents choice. When my Mom was in her 90’s and had congestive heart disease, we supported her staying in her own home which was her wishes. She was bright and intelligent and loved life. She also always loved salt, at some point we stopped trying to convince her that salt was not good for her heart. She died at 98 and I am happy that she made her own choices up to the end.
No right or wrong way, just two ways of looking at it.

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