#Elder care

[feminist-space]

#nursing home #elder care #disabled care #Imani Barbarin

[liberalsarecool]

But at least billionaires are getting tax cuts!!

We are failing to do the basics in order to give more advantages to the most advantaged.

More and more Americans will lose all their money/savings caring for a parent/grandparents because we refuse to address health care.

Capitalism will not solve this problem. It will only make it worse.

Medicare For All. Tax the rich. Health care is a human right. Private insurance is a monster.

The race to the bottom conservatives will NEVER solve this problem.

#health care #medicare for all #elder care

[longreads]

“The entire elder care system operates on a mantra of out of sight, out of mind. Medical residencies feature little to no geriatric training; the profession experiences an annual turnover rate of 60 percent. A 2021 study found that turnover in nursing care facilities skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the average annual rate in 2020 at a shocking 128 percent. In other words, if you apply for a job at a nursing home, you can pretty well count on getting hired. For someone with little access to education living on the edge of poverty, this fact is a godsend. Yet, caveats lurk. There are countless reports of understaffing in nursing homes, underfunding, limited regulations where it matters (staff pay, patient ratio) and reels of red tape where it doesn’t (hours of required paperwork that detail how many ounces of water the resident drank, but not how they cry at night for their children). And while you may be trained on how to wipe from front to back, there’s no training to prepare you for the psychic toll of watching your people suffer until they die. 

There are plenty of reasons to see nursing homes as sad, neglectful places, and I’m sorry to say that my experience working in one did not change this perception. But I can also say that the perception has less to do with staffing, funding, and regulations (or lack thereof) and much more to do with our country’s fear of death, its rejection of vulnerability, and its subsequent inability to see the inherent dignity in people — especially in their vulnerable moments.”

Our latest feature, “The Sunset” by Lisa Bubert, is a gutting, illuminating read on the elder care system and our culture’s rejection of vulnerability. 

#longreads #longform #elder care #nursing home #aging #death #nonfiction #essay

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Running is a key component of traditional soccer. But have you ever imagined the sport without as much cardio?

The Yellowknife Bay Soccer Club is trying to launch a program in January for people interested in walking soccer: a modified, non-contact version of soccer where you can't run, jog, or tackle anyone. 

Anyone can play the game, but it's meant to be especially beneficial for older people and those with mobility issues. "Life doesn't end at 40 or 45 or 50 or 60 or whatever. So this is a way for soccer to truly be soccer for life," said Joe Acorn, the founder of the Yellowknife Bay Soccer Club. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #elder care #disability #accessibility #sports #Yellowknife #NorthWest Territories

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Just so you know: I listen to the news with an ear toward what would interest my mutuals on Tumblr

This story has several intersections: the need for prison abolition, disablism (and ableism), systematic racism & "tough on Crime" legislation, the fact that our nation is growing older, and people tend to become disabled as they age (Every able-bodied person is only temporarily so).

#prison abolition #elder care #disability #1990s politics #“tough on crime” #NPR news

[politijohn]

Source

#politics #us politics #government #capitalism #elder care #current events #news #health #public health #the left #progressive

[kali-writes-meta]

Eldercare and Trump Worship

We think a lot about how to turn people away from Trump, but there's one aspect of Trump's appeal to his oldest followers that's been overlooked. It's a truism of eldercare that anything that engages the interest of the elderly helps keep them alive and healthy. It doesn't matter if it's hobbies, community service, exercise, church, pets, or whatever, if they have something to look forward to they keep going longer. There's numerous studies to back this conclusion up. Well, like it or not, this fact has to apply to Trumpism as well. Their interest in Trump, devotion to Trump, is keeping them active and engaged. No matter how much harm it's doing our country and our world, on a personal level that commitment to Trump has to be improving the health and longevity of his senior citizen followers. Which means that even though his policies may hurt their friends, family, and themselves, they are going to fight for him as if their life depends on it, because on a strictly personal level their life DOES depend on it.

This subliminal awareness presents a huge obstacle in weaning senior citizens off Trump. Disengaging from Trumpism is disengaging from the thing that's keeping them going. Without it, from their perspective, what reason do they have to keep on living? That's a deadly question at their age.

It's not enough to just say that the world and their life would be a better place without Trump, we have to actively paint a vision of HOW the world and their life would be a better place without Trump. And then we have to actively SELL that vision. Until we offer them a vision of the America more lively, interesting and engaging to them than Trump's, they have a vested interest in not making the switch.

We've given America hope before. We must do it again.

#donald trump #trump #trump 2024 #trumpism #republicans #democrats #us politics #politics #senior care #senior citizens #elderly care #elder care #voting #vote

[bootleg-nessie]

Instead of getting a job I’m gonna go hang out at retirement homes and gaslight dementia patients into thinking I’m their grandson so they’ll cut me into their wills

#elder care #r/196 #r/196archive #196 #/r/196 #rule #meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting

[randyite]

#family leave #developed country #rich nation #first world #paid vacation #universal health care #affordable college #child care #elder care #2024 election

[inthefallofasparrow]

Should You Have A Baby? | SOME MORE NEWS

#katy stoll #IVF #childcare #elder care #racism #great replacement theory #gop #elon musk #anti abortion #climate change #Youtube #parental leave #dennis praeger

[iheartvmt]

God Bless Veterinary Receptionists 💚

Elderly Client: *Flags me down around the corner* Hello! Excuse me, can you please get Cheryl? She usually fills [Fluffy's] worming medicine.

Me: *am confusion* We don't have a Cheryl here?

Client: Haha, seriously though, go get Cheryl.

Me: Sir, there isn't a Cheryl here. Are you sure you're at the right clinic?

Client: *looking at me like I'm either dumb or messing him around* I get my worming medicine here every month. Go get Cheryl, she knows who I am.

Me: I'm sorry, sir, might you mean [Receptionist S]?

Client: *pauses* Well, if Cheryl isn't here, [Receptionist M] sometimes helps me.

[Receptionist M is on vacation, so I go find Receptionist S]

Me: ...There's an elderly gentleman here adamant he wants to talk to a Cheryl?? I thought maybe he was at the wrong clinic, but he said he gets his worming meds for [Fluffy] here every month?

Receptionists S: *sighs* I know exactly who that is. He can't remember any of our names except [Receptionist M]. Bless his heart, he's sweet, but very lonely; I think [Fluffy] is all he has to keep him company. So he always wants to chat when he picks up heartworm meds for [Fluffy]. He'll be telling me everything he did 40 years ago. But don't worry, I'll take care of it.

Receptionist S: *gets the meds together and, despite being busy, proceeds to spend 15 minutes shooting the breeze with a lonely person in need of kindness*

#veterinary #veterinary receptionist #my coworkers #clients #love #kindness #elder care #caring

[agoddamnsupernova]

I really love what I do but, fuck, can I just catch a break?

#personal #ignore me #work stuff #those are finger prints #elder care #dementia

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A new study has revealed an increase in antipsychotic drugs use in long-term care homes across Canada despite no significant increase in behavioural symptoms of residents – something that may expose a potential area of concern for quality of care, researchers say.

The study, published in Health Services Insights, examined data from yearly Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports to assess how COVID-19 impacted resident admission and discharge rates, resident health attributes, treatments, and quality of care.

The report data was collected two years pre-pandemic and in the first year of COVID-19, and was from more than 500,000 residents across Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. [...]

There was an approximately 10 per cent in risk adjusted odds of potentially inappropriate antipsychotic drug use across the provinces studied, compared with the pre-pandemic period, according to John Hirdes, professor at the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #elder care #healthcare #mental healthcare #pharmacare

[waderockett]

Back in the 80s my friend Tamara was a cool, funny, and sweet rock 'n' roll chick at my high school in Las Vegas. Now she's a disabled caregiver facing homelessness for herself and her elderly mom, who has dementia. If you can donate or share the link, anything helps.

#caregiverlife #disability #disabled #dementia #fundraising #fundraiser #donate if you can #donations #las vegas #henderson #nevada #elder care #senior assistance #homeless #poverty #caregiving #elderly care #assisted living #memory care #ankylosing spondylitis #atrial fibrillation #colitis #chronic illness

[sataniccapitalist]

#elder care #capitalism #you #your family #nursing home #private equity #real estate

[inherstars]

Mleh.

Every day before I leave home to go work at my parents' for the day, I tell Marc, "I love you and I miss you."

And lord I KNOW he didn't mean to crush my whole entire soul, but this morning he was like, "I love you, but like, I don't miss you."

And he said it nicely and laughingly, and I know that he meant that this is basically no different than when we were still both working in an office, or when we're each in our own respective offices for the day, only really seeing each other at the end of the day (plus at lunch, which we're obviously not doing now.)

And he's right, it's not like we are seeing each other LESS. It's not as if I'm literally sitting here PINING for him. But it drove home that most people really do not understand how fucking isolating and depressing this is. How I'm sitting here with the choice of hearing my mother 'ouch' and suck her teeth in pain over every little thing, or going in to physically help her with whatever she's trying to do, and suffer her 'ouching' and yelling in pain at me hurting her, which is worse. If I have to keep hearing her nauseating just-about-to-vomit burps and over and over again I'm going to scream.

I don't miss him, I miss what he represents, and that is me feeling like I have control of my life. I miss the feeling of having finally gotten away from two horribly toxic people, the ability to keep them at a safe arm's length. I miss not having reminders that I got sucked back into everything that is wrong with both of them as human beings, and now it's my problem to deal with again.

Because of course he doesn't miss me. He's chatting it up with his coworkers and his D&D friends and his improv friends, and it's outside his entire realm of experience that someone could be 10 minutes away but somehow also completely isolated and alone.

#personal #vent #elder care