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Originally Posted by flashytart
i would never ever put a parent in a nursing/residential home, i have worked in several over the years and they are awful, i worked at Altham care home, the hollies, le-moors, sparthfield and crawshaw hall in crawshaw booth rawtenstall and ive also worked in the community looking after the elderly and disabled, i wouldnt trust any of them, i'd rather look after my dad myself
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TRY avoiding the crap then
I have worked in Nursing homes and residential homes. I know the bad and I know the good ( occupational hazard, ya get to find out the good from the bad).
It is a very very hard decision to make when anyone has to put their loved one in a nursing home, be it a Mother, father, husband, wife or even child.
No-one can say for sure what they would do/have to do, under these circumstances, and I don't think it is a decision that is made lightly by any family.
As what Mick asked..... yes I would. I know the very best ones and I know the very crap ones. There is a lot of stigma attached to nursing homes, but, carers that I have had the fortune of working with are very very professional and good at their jobs. It is a 24 hour job looking after someone who is very very poorly, and in todays society, where women have a house to keep, children to bring up and go to work full time, its very difficult to look after another sick family member around the clock. Back in the older days, when women stayed at home, it was the norm that sick members of the family would be looked after at home, but, un fortunately, due to todays high demands on family life, it's not possible.
And at the other end of the scale, it's very hard for a man/women of 80 years old to look after the needs of husband/wife through deterioration of health 24 hrs a day.
NO-one can say what they would do if they WERE ever faced with the prospect, until they are faced with it.
(( thats my two penneth worth ))
