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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previously worked on elder care and had a parent who was in a full-care facility for many years.

Bottom line in future:  I predict elder care will be increasingly done by medication, robotics and technology. Essentially, warehousing the elderly in larger and larger facilities.

Even now, many elderly are over medicated almost to the point of stupor and are often completely bed-ridden, to be able for staff to manage them easier and spend less time on their care.

Profit is the motivator. Most assisted living and 
Skilled nursing facilities are corporately owned now and are  primarily interested in profits.

In China, they already have huge high-rise facilities where the elderly are assisted by technology (robotic meal delivery, sensors/cameras in room, beds/wetness sensors, robots lifing/moving people) where all of it is monitored by a central "command post." 
Basically, no need for staff unless/until a monitor shows distress or a specific need.

I am certain this will be elder care in future America.

Welcome to the 21st Century
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This is horrible. [/quote]

It may be better than having grandma sit in her soaking wet bed waiting for the overworked nurse's aide to come and change her sheets.[/quote]

Or falling down the stairs in her own home that's unsafe to live in. Or allowing water damage in a bathroom to get so bad that whole forms in the subfloor.[/quote]

Better from a practical perspective maybe. There is no technology that will EVER replace another human being's kind touch or look in the eyes. Imagine spending your last years of life with nothing but a robot to feed/care for you and maybe, once in a blue moon, another human looks at you briefly, like an animal in a zoo.  [/quote]

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