The article below has some useful things to consider.
And it does not even mention the option of the frail parent's living situation being massively changed such that "going home" becomes the best option.
Nick here is training folk up to be consumers of commercialised aged care.
Re-peopling the parent's house, the parent moving in with family/friends - options that give continued domestic life.
#CommercialisedAgedCare #NickBruining #AgedCare #AgedCareDecisions#TheWestAustralian #Australia
The sooner an old person is institutionalised the better they'll adapt, according to some seeking to justify putting an elderly person into #AgedCare.
While there is something behind that, for some strange reason the proponents don't want themselves to be put into an institution immediately.
Appears that being optimally adapted to being institutionalised is not something they're choosing for themselves?
While weighting it heavily for another?
Thank you to all contributors.
The combined knowlege shown by Mastodon folk is impressive.
And it was wonderfully re-assuring and empowering walking into the facility with a distillation of questions coming from so many people's experiences, on paper, in my pocket.
I've made a list of +50 questions from what's been posted and some extras.
Will be posted here once grouped into topics.
DM me if you need the questions immediately.
I'm off to inspect a room in an aged care facility possibly for an #ElderlyRelative.
And I get to ask questions.
Please tell me what questions you'd ask.
Even questions you might think of avoiding asking.
I'll be Replying to this toot with some of the #AgedCareQuestions I come up with too.
(This #AgedCareFacility / #NursingHome is in #Australia. The standard of care here is much lower than the USA AIUI.)
Looking to justify putting an elderly person into aged care?
Be sure to define their personhood in ways that excludes all the things that taking them out of their current environment will make much less likely.
That way it'll appear that they'll lose very little.
Focussing on them, not as co-creators in a family and in their neighbourhood & friendship circles, but as consumers of comfort, calmness and routine keeps things simple and the solution obvious.
skua