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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would never leave your young child in a place that didn't allow you to check on them at will. Why would you leave an equally vulnerable elder with no checks for a week?

I have seen amazing care in relatively spartan SNFs with a lot of medicaid beds, and I've seen bad stuff in very pricey facilities, and the other way around. It doesn't matter how good you think they are, or how good they were last month. Things change. Someone needs to be watching carefully, because unfortunately you just cannot trust "the facility."[/quote]

Spot on!

I know of a very expensive and highly-recommended SNF where the residents are drugged into oblivion and kept in their beds. Literally, you walked out of the elevator onto the floor and you didn't hear a thing other than some background TVs. There was no one in the hallway, no one in the recreation room, no one eating in the posh dining room.

Sure, the building was beautiful and gleaming and the residents were quiet and sleeping most of the time, but I couldn't help but think that a certain percentage of these elderly people might have had a better quality of life if they hadn't been so drugged. It sure made things easier for the facility, though, since they didn't have to hire so many people.

On the other hand, I went to a smaller facility that was not as flashy, had many Medicaid residents BUT the management team there actually spent time on their quality of life - doing activities and made sure they got up, were dressed and into their walkers/wheelchairs every single day. Happiest bunch of residents I saw - even those with dementia. And the workers were happy, too, because the man who ran the place was a true leader - not a corporate shill protecting the bottom line.

The people working there cared and did not advocate for drugging residents into a stupor, just to make their lives easier. [/quote]

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