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Hionhelium87 t1_je17r9j wrote

Reply to comment by mynameisnotshamus in Connecticut's Elder Care Reckoning by ctmirror

My grandmother with dementia is on her 3rd memory care facility. The last one threatened to kick her out because she was displaying aggressiveness which is a very common sign of….you guessed it…dementia. We moved her out anyway because she kept getting frequent UTIs due to lack of care/cleanliness. They rarely bathed her. It’s sickening.

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mynameisnotshamus t1_je18myi wrote

That’s awful. Frequent UTIs are unfortunately very common in my limited experience. There is a lot of money in elder care, but it seems to all go to administration/ executives rather than the staff. They are very over worked and under paid. Not to give excuses- no person (or animal) should ever be treated these ways, but it seems very much a too down issue.

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Hionhelium87 t1_je19cub wrote

Oh I agree 100%. The actual staff need to be paid more and there needs to be more of them. This specific place I know cuts hours of their workers even though they don’t need to. This causes gaps in coverage - overnight especially. Since we know that’s on purpose it somehow makes it more underhanded and evil - both for their staff and for the patients. The woman that ran the memory care unit at our place 100% should not be allowed to be in charge of anyone let alone folks with memory issues.

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buried_lede t1_je3spfq wrote

Even the best facilities have issues. And they are cost cutting. One place eliminated their entire medical staff and contracted out to a practice in CT that does gobs of nursing homes here. So the doctors and APRNs actually work for this practice. The educational credentials of the personnel don’t compare at all with prior staff

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