Some family would sue the facility for not providing adequate nutrition,
even though they are the ones making the situation happen, so there's that.
My dad was in one of those places and called the state elder abuse
office or nursing home oversight office or whatever, complaining about
the "g--d--- garbage they are feeding me here." So an inspector comes
out, finds no issue, goes to talk to him and it turns out someone messed
up and didn't give him whatever special meal he wanted to replace
whatever was on the menu that day. He took his food quite seriously,
though he would have been happy with a piece of meat, boiled potatoes,
and boiled green beans 3X/day...
--FT
On 3/18/20 11:35 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
At that age does it really matter?
Sounds like when my Mom was in assisted living. She loved to eat candy. We
would bring her stuff all the time and I guess she plowed through it as soon as
she got it.
My brother, the corporate banker who is all business, was her
conservator/guardian, whatever they call it. One day he gets summoned to the
facility’s administrator’s office. The administrator is there with the staff
dietician. They wail on him about all the candy she eats and that she’s not
eating regular meals as a result (she never ate regular meal there, anyway. She
was reclusive as heck and refused to go to the dining room.)
“So she’s 80+ years old. Is she in poor health as a result?”
“Well, no, not really."
“Then let her eat candy or whatever she wants.”
<walks out briskly>
Never heard another word about it. We continued to take her candy, and she
lived a long life and went out in her sleep.
-D
On Mar 18, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
If we're talking about even a 1% mortality rate wouldn't China be staring down
around 10 million dead?
At some point its probably difficult to quantify exactly what people died of.
Especially in the elderly population some (many?) of these people were going to
die soon anyway.
Angie's grandmother lives in assisted living, she's 90. She was telling Angie
that at night they're not supposed to leave their rooms but they've been
sneaking out to play cards. Probably not the safest thing to do but a good
thing for their mental health.
-Curt
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