• jerry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I worked at a nursing home as a cook, I guess it was a nice one? We had a nutritionist and made like cafeteria food, then chopped half of it up for the people who had problems, then puréed it for the ones who couldn’t feed themselves.

    Profit has become a tyrant. We used to make people happy in its name, now we shape everything in its service.

    • Tigbitties@kbin.socialEnglish
      04·
      1 year ago

      Profit has become a tyrant

      Unfortunately, I disagree. I think it’s become hero. It shouldn’t but it is.

  • Azamandriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I worked for years in a nursing home and I can tell you that it is total bullshit. Everything is the lowest quality at the highest markup. Let me assure you that the staffing at 99% of these places is so low that the residents are waiting 20-30 min to use the restroom and basically live trapped in a bed with little to no assistance.

    • endlessloop@kbin.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When my grandmother was unable to live on her own we moved her up to where we live. She had a good amount of money stashed away, so shopped every nice facility in town, and picked what seemed like the nicest one. While I would say the food didn’t look as terrible as the picture in the OP, it wasn’t much better. Multiple other issues at these places though, staff not helping, not giving meds on time, falling and not getting assistance for hours. One of the worst was falling, having to go to the hospital, and never letting emergency contacts know. We found out when the hospital called, because her charts didn’t seem to match up. Turns out they sent the wrong charts to the hospital. Thank god she didn’t have any allergies. We ended up moving her to another facility that was even more expensive, and promised none of these things would happen there. Turns out that wasn’t true, so my parents finally ended up moving to a new home where they could finish the basement and build an apartment for her with full time care hired to come by.

      I used to always think if you had the financial part of old age figured out you’d be okay, boy was I wrong.

  • Creecher10@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Looks about right. I worked in a retirement home for 4 years. 2 in the kitchen and 2 doing maintenance. These residents were paying upwards of $10k a month and the food was fucking awful 90% of the time. Not only is the food super shitty but they dont even get all their meals included in their monthly rent so if they wanted 3 meals a day (Breakfast, lunch, dinner) then you had to choose which meal you wanted to pay for out of pocket. These retirement/nursing homes are predatory as hell. I know its not possible for everyone but if you love your parents, do them a favor and keep them out of these homes.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    My ex (we broke up a year ago and don’t talk) worked as a nurse in an expensive nursing home. Some of the stories she’s told me about how they treat staff and even patients are shocking.

  • fear@kbin.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone recognize what that beige slop is in the lower compartment?

  • morain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    We kept our mom out of a nursing home specifically for the food and staffing and overpriced everything reasons. When we looked them all over, even the $5000 a month place had residents calling out for help endlessly, with just two nurses aides working over 100 residents. So sad. Profit over care, from insurance to nursing home.

    • Thadrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      This doesn’t look appetizing at all, however the amount doesn’t seem that unrealistic for old people.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure about that. The veggies are relatively low in calories. The chicken and dumplings would be really high in calories but that’s a very small amount.

        My best guess is this plate is less than 200-250 calories. We’re missing a lot of detail here though. It might not be three equal calorie meals per day. This might not be what your average person gets someone might have just pissed in their Wheaties.

        Assuming that’s one of three daily meals with equal calories, that’s probably about half the calories even someone in total lethargy would need to survive.

  • Rich Aten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Dang, where is there a nursing home for 3k a month? My dad had to go into a nursing home here in Colorado, and had to private pay out of his savings until it was exhausted and the Medicaid kicked in. Private pay at the cheapest place in town was 7.2k a month minimum, and the food was about like that. They shut that facility down a few years ago, and he got moved to a much nicer one that still took medicaid. Food is orders of magnitude better there. Not all places ate like that, but they are all very expensive for private pay.