I was gonna say I work at one now and I must have really underestimated how much nicer it was than some others. I knew it was a nice one, but jeez.

That sounds lovely. My mom worked in a long term care home for adults with disabilities and one way they cut corners was by puréing ALL of the food instead of catering to individual patient needs.

Profit has become a tyrant

Unfortunately, I disagree. I think it's become hero. It shouldn't but it is.

I just talked with a coworker about this today. Her dad lost his leg because they failed to respond to a foot infection and they then also blamed him for not telling them soon enough… It’s disgusting how we treat the elderly in those facilities (and here we pay double those 3k btw…) I was forced to work in a nursing home for 2 months as part of my civil duty (military service substitution). I couldn’t do it anymore, it just kills you how they treat some people. Those are grown adults and I was told they can’t have a small knife to cut vegetables, not because they were unsafe with them but just as a matter of policy. Others where given clothes to fold that afterwards where thrown back into the same bucket that they came from to be folded again tomorrow. They were lied to and treated with less respect than little kids… And then the whole COVID thing in addition to that where they couldn’t see anyone and had to endure this idiocy basically 24/7.

I really never thought about suicide but if I end up in such a facility when I’m old, I might have to reevaluate my stance on that… that’s not living, that’s dying in installments while being drained of your money….

When my grandmother was unable to live on her own we moved her up to where we live. She had a good amount of money stashed away, so shopped every nice facility in town, and picked what seemed like the nicest one. While I would say the food didn't look as terrible as the picture in the OP, it wasn't much better. Multiple other issues at these places though, staff not helping, not giving meds on time, falling and not getting assistance for hours. One of the worst was falling, having to go to the hospital, and never letting emergency contacts know. We found out when the hospital called, because her charts didn't seem to match up. Turns out they sent the wrong charts to the hospital. Thank god she didn't have any allergies. We ended up moving her to another facility that was even more expensive, and promised none of these things would happen there. Turns out that wasn't true, so my parents finally ended up moving to a new home where they could finish the basement and build an apartment for her with full time care hired to come by.

I used to always think if you had the financial part of old age figured out you'd be okay, boy was I wrong.

Nursing home I imagine by the price?

Time to use the benefits of lemmy and edit that title!

I wish I noticed that before someone embarrassed me in the comments 😪

Exactly

Just like with r/Mildlyinfuriating It's like it never left!

This doesn't look appetizing at all, however the amount doesn't seem that unrealistic for old people.

Oh no. Please don't tell me that's what that diseased morsel in the top left corner is.

Where I'm at, the nursing homes change ownership every few years to avoid responsibility for their negligence

People leaving USA.... Maybe we need to leave....

There, FTFY. 🤓🤘🏼 There's more than enough reasons these days. Frankly, the main one keeping me here for a little while longer is just the youngin' aging into independence. We're GTFO after that. 🤌🏼

I juried a case regarding long term care, and I have to say that some businesses definitely treat their patients as numbers. While this is not what happened in the case I juried, I do know that in many states elderly care has gotten so bad that some clinics will intentionally misdiagnose and mistreat elderly patients for no other reason than to keep rooms filled.

"paying the staff" lmao. I know it's sarcasm, but still. As someone who has worked as a nurse in a shitty home, I can only emphasize the money ain't going to the staff.

I work with a lot of retirees. Many daycare centers require full access and history to their retirees to know how much their making. Wether they gave 3k or 7k or monthly income they want it all.

No difference in what service is provided regardless of the pay to the institution either.

Unsure if regulation would help or hurt this industry but it may be necessary.

My retirement is dying while training the AI that will replace me

Chicken and dumplings.

This looks like it's PA Dutch style pot pie, which is basically a stew. It looks pretty normal except they made the dough squares smaller and shredded the chicken to make it less of a choking hazard. This ladle full doesn't seem to have many potatoes or carrots, though they might limit them to keep the choking hazard down.

This is normally a super hearty meal and very filling. I make a big pot of it in the winter and you basically need a nap after eating it.

Looks about right for an elderly person with limited mobility.

Presentation is shit, but it's not as bad as it seems.

Looks like a purple cauliflower floret.

Both really. 36,000$ per year is a lot of money, but as far as nursing homes go, you can easily get up to 120,000$ per year or more.

Looks like purple broccoli.

Done right it's lovely.

This is not done right.

Wait, that's broccoli?

I think that's purple cauliflower... not that it makes anything better.

Why it gray tho

Isn't that the truth. So sad our society can bend over backwards to take care of everything but people.