Golden Years
It takes a lot of gold when you are old. And you still don't get what you pay for. I have been terribly preoccupied of late (which accounts for the lengthy delay between rants) with managing my mom's health care. She has been in assisted living here in town and the facility, while nice, is run by a faraway corporation who has many such facilities across the country. Their goal is to maintain the minimum staffing possible to avoid being legally liable and so maximize profit. This causes good-hearted well-intentioned staff to be overworked and generally underpaid with the result that assisted living becomes observed living as there just isn't much assistance to be had.
Mom worked hard her whole life on all of life's fronts and it just seems wrong that better end-of-life situations are not available. At least that is the case in our county. It is just so wearing making critical life decisions for your parents and to have so few decent options shameful. It irks me mightly that our domestic healthcare dollars are diverted to an illegal war and illicit corporate gain. Mom deserves more than that. We all do.
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