It is a constantly source of amazement to me why working class Americans keeps accepting this, why they are not giving the oligarchs reasons to shit themselves out of fear of reprisals.
the most disillusioned people i work with are the ones that have had to help a working-class parent navigate this system. like straight up, any wealth the parent has accumulated (like that house they bought in 1968) gets cannibalized to the tune of $10,000/month for a room at a nursing home with true assisted living. when that is gone, the organization takes their entire social security check and lets them have $80/month for luxury items like toilet paper, a cell phone, and optional medication.
and it goes without saying that the labor force of the assisted living location that is actually taking care of your family member makes like $8/hr and has like 30 people assigned to them per shift.
i'm in sort of a red state and the massive chud governor that was too much of a openly psychotic chud to get re-elected.... his lieutenant governor was like some kind of nursing home mogul in the region. the sociopaths who own these facilities are caking the fuck up and they are going after positions of power.
i have been hard pushing my retired parents to emigrate elsewhere, with the offer that i will go with them, under my own steam, and help however i can. the american system is completely rigged and intolerable.
I have heard about multiple nursing homes with only 2 people on staff, and you need ONE to be monitoring the nurse calls at all times, and you also need TWO people to move a patient. That is THREE PEOPLE but they only staff TWO.
When a 110lb nursing assistant can't keep a 300 pound Alzheimer's patient from falling in the bathroom, their license is threatened because they are supposed to have two people lifting residents. But they know there aren't two people.
They also happily take on memory care patients into assisted living facilities, which is illegal.
It is a constantly source of amazement to me why working class Americans keeps accepting this, why they are not giving the oligarchs reasons to shit themselves out of fear of reprisals.
the most disillusioned people i work with are the ones that have had to help a working-class parent navigate this system. like straight up, any wealth the parent has accumulated (like that house they bought in 1968) gets cannibalized to the tune of $10,000/month for a room at a nursing home with true assisted living. when that is gone, the organization takes their entire social security check and lets them have $80/month for luxury items like toilet paper, a cell phone, and optional medication.
and it goes without saying that the labor force of the assisted living location that is actually taking care of your family member makes like $8/hr and has like 30 people assigned to them per shift.
i'm in sort of a red state and the massive chud governor that was too much of a openly psychotic chud to get re-elected.... his lieutenant governor was like some kind of nursing home mogul in the region. the sociopaths who own these facilities are caking the fuck up and they are going after positions of power.
i have been hard pushing my retired parents to emigrate elsewhere, with the offer that i will go with them, under my own steam, and help however i can. the american system is completely rigged and intolerable.
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Can confirm.
I have heard about multiple nursing homes with only 2 people on staff, and you need ONE to be monitoring the nurse calls at all times, and you also need TWO people to move a patient. That is THREE PEOPLE but they only staff TWO.
When a 110lb nursing assistant can't keep a 300 pound Alzheimer's patient from falling in the bathroom, their license is threatened because they are supposed to have two people lifting residents. But they know there aren't two people.
They also happily take on memory care patients into assisted living facilities, which is illegal.
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Or just be in denial of the scary thing