Chickens Live Better Than Seniors

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United Healthcare on their website posts: 

What is nursing home level of care?

"Nursing home care is provided mostly by licensed practical nurses and nurse aides under the supervision of a registered nurse. Care is focused on activities of daily living, like dressing, bathing and eating. This is often called "custodial care."

Many fail to see or consider the conditions within many Long Term Care Facilities often referred to as "Nursing Home Care" or "Custodial Care" leading to abnormal lives for our elderly.

Several organizations have risen up to call for more humane treatment for chickens on farms where they spend their lives in squalor. 

Humans simply turn the page or click onto another site esp when they don't have a loved one "experiencing" LTC.

Chickens and humans both react to mistreatment. Humane Societies and other private animal rights organizations were formed to protect animals and they're becoming more and more effective in shutting down puppy mills, rescuing abused animals and providing better living conditions overall.

When will we recognize the current Long Term Care system is stagnant, ineffective and creates living conditions we don't tolerate for animals but allow for loved ones?

Even Encylopedia Britannica Advocacy has "jumped on" the bandwagon for chickens 

This is a section from the entry on the above site. 

INSERT THE WORD "SENIOR" FOR CHICKEN:

"Chickens are sociable, intelligent animals. 

"Studies have shown that they are able to solve problems. . . 

"Their natural behavior includes living in stable groups . . .

"The chickens in a given flock know . . .recognize each other." 

The article goes on to talk about how the chickens react -- often upset, angry, fighting. How they live in the excrement and how they get sick.

I walked down halls in LTC's noticing a hint of floral or spice in the air. The purpose was to cover the smell of urine and excrement.

Report it, right? To whom? The Administrator who was overwhelmed with being short staffed, reports overdue to higher interests with large investments looking for her to reduce the bottom line and raise the level of profitability.

The One and Only RN on duty for a facility numbering well over 100 residents? The LPN whose responsibilities already exceed human capability? 

Seniors Are Often Confined

Mentally isolated or pushed into unwanted social settings.

Have their walkers taken away.

Limited in movement by wheelchairs that function poorly;

Not fitted to their bodies or ensured adjusted when needed.

Seniors left to "GO" -- to urinate or to defecate in their paper pants that barely hold what's passed. Seniors provided with flimsy paper pants of the lowest quality simply to cut corners and provide funds.

Sitting on a toilet continuing to press a buzzer no one answers.

Short staffed, exhausted attendants, two hands and little else.

Seniors are placed in "groups" not their choosing or where they're comfortable.

All meant to contain, control, limit movement and mobility

Assigned to tables day after day and not allowed to chose where they'll sit; a placard often shows their name and that's where they're expected to sit.

Placed in areas or left in their rooms, isolated and without activity and human touch.

Overworked aides and short staffing numbers cannot provide adequate attention or assistance.

Close your eyes, now envision:  

Twelve people want to attend an activity on the first floor.

They're on the third floor. 

The two elevators accommodate two wheelchairs each and that's close quarters.

 The "activity" is half an hour in length. 

There are four attendants on the floor; one is needed for each 10 rooms and there are over 20. 

Who goes, who stays, who is privileged and who left behind?

Easy answer from personal experience:

A resident who has a visitor who can help them .

A resident who can move their wheelchair quickly, reach the button to summon the elevator, get on without crashing into someone or another chair already in place

Be capable of moving both forward and backward without running over someone's feet or bumping into walls or objects.

Is this how you want to live? 

It hurt to see and hear and know my hands were tied trying to survive a life of basic survival outside those doors

It hasn't changed and to make matters worse, our "younger generations" are screaming at our "older and oldest" :

Get Out Of Your Homes! We Want And Need Them, You Don't!

Administrators and Executives can have large salaries and even benefits including private club memberships where they "supposedly" mingle to get more "donations" and "funds".

QUESTION:  Where's the outcry? Where's the uproar? Where are we as a society when we protect our animals and children but not our Seniors?

What do our practices show about us as the supposed leading Nation on earth economically?

If we cannot provide for and protect the most vulnerable

If we do not act and respond effectively and completely to their needs

If we fail to provide for them -- what will happen to the rest of us when we reach their age and stage of life?

Life is precious in all its stages. Work for change. 

Stop the current movement wanting to displace Seniors demanding they "move out" and "move on".