“When COVID-19 hit, hospitals owned by private equity firms were among the first to cut their workers’ pay and benefits because their operations could no longer generate profits on elective surgical procedures delayed due to the pandemic.”

Excerpt From
These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

#privateEquity #bookstodon #nonfiction #kkr #predatoryCapitalism #nursingHome #medicare

#nursingHome #healthCare

After 8 weeks in hospital mum finally moves to a #NursingHome tomorrow. Her #dementia has accelerated alarmingly in hospital but I am hoping she will settle in ok with a good care routine. Can't wait to see her there tomorrow!
I wonder should we ever take her to see her house, or just let it go from her memory.

#OldAge #Seniors #NursingHome #SocialSecurity #GoldenYears

One of the worst things you learn with aging parents:

they often flush things like hearing aids or eyeglasses down the toilet
or try to
or just drop them

or at least, that is what the people at the nursing home or long term care facility tell me

#LongTermCare
#Medicare #Medicaid

The care of our elderly needs a rehab! Nursing homes as they are right now are NOT where you want to live out your last years. Thank you Governor Harley! #nursinghome #elederneglect #Healey cleans up Baker’s mess at Chelsea Soldiers’ Home https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/12/opinion/healey-cleans-up-bakers-mess-chelsea-soldiers-home/

Things I wish the nursing home I volunteer at would tell me about: deaths on my floor.

Today I entered a room and cheerfully asked a grieving family if their deceased relative wanted some coffee or tea.

I looked so defeated when they told me that *they* began apologizing to *me*.

#NursingHome #Volunteer #Mistake #Grief