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What are your tips for staying independent at your own home?
Aging Well | Last Active: Nov 1 12:41pm | Replies (187)Comment receiving replies
I read your post with great interest. Many of your complaints were the same as mine. I firmly believe that neglect and bad care contributed to my husband's death when he was in one of those facilities. Then after his death, I had my hip replacement and had to be in one and experienced the horrors. The bottom line is that they are not really in business to help sick people. They are in business to make money and cheat Medicare.
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Marilyn, I so understand and agree with you. So sorry about your husband. I believe many have experienced the “horrors” from facilities, hospitals and or home care.
Your letter needs to be read by anyone considered a rest home. I don’t want to be negative, but here are a few more “horrors” I experienced from my husband being in rehab/rest home and hiring the wrong people as caregivers (CG).
1) found CG in room with my husband asleep giving herself a pedicure with her feet soaking in his bed bath
tubs.
2) CG meeting maintenance man in next door room.
3) Doctor never visible
4) Nurses meeting at their desks while patients waiting
5) Husband’s clothes sent to laundry but never returned. They were “lost.”
6) CG makes mistakes on prescriptions.
7) Speech therapist feeds husband wrong food he could not swallow. Later he was hospitalized for pulmonary pneumonia. Fox went to lungs. It took 16 people to revive him in ER.
8) CG sleeping in room.
9) CG smoking in restroom.
10) CG asked us for a “loan.”
These are only s few …