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[quote=Anonymous]The hyperbole about exploding houses and naked grannies running down children in their ‘57 Biscaynes is too much! Every persons’s situation is different and there is no one size fits all solution. My sense is that people do best in a facility if (1) they are lucid enough to know they need the help and make the choice willingly; or (2) they are so far out of it that at least most of the time they don’t know the difference. The one thing that matters most in a care facility is the caretakers. Some of them somehow find a way to include love along with the care. Others do not. And some shouldn’t be allowed to take care of livestock, let alone human beings. It is true that some patients form social bonds, but I think that the majority of people still capable of that wish they were still living independently. It’s hard to be social surrounded by old, dying, deteriorating people. “Memory care” has to be among the most cynical marketing labels ever devised. [/quote]
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