dinner for the residents of the nursing home i work at

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SadExercises420@reddit

Cuomo helped spread covid in nursing homes with shitty decision making. He didn’t set out to kill grannies with shitty meal options.

But you’re hilarious dude

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Historical-Day-7556@reddit

Everybody hates coumo lol but even bringing up the idea that some covid policies were failures is still a soft spot. Trust the science!!!!

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SadExercises420@reddit

Excuse me? He did make shitty decisions regarding covid that led to hundreds of seniors dying. That’s just a fact

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Lol lord you are a dork. Obsessing over covid for the rest of your life is sad as fuck. Maybe some jelly roll "music" can help you get your mind off of the past? Or maybe work on your life so you can focus on the future?

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sweetfruitloops@reddit

I hated this so much. These elderly literally have little to nothing left to look forward to and their meal times get destroyed.

My grandfather ended up getting both legs amputated due to a nursing home staff member cutting his toenails. This was not allowed by the way. But due to his diabetes, the minor cuts turned into full on gangrene. This happened twice, by 2 different people, about 4 years apart. Only a podiatrist was allowed to do so.

Then 2 nurses insisted my grandfather be put to bed at 4pm. When he stated that he didn't want to go to bed that early, they punished him by turning his wheelchair to face a wall and making him stay like that all night. You bet my mother got those 2 fired.

He ultimately died after a nurse was rushing his catheter care. She pulled on the line, it tore, it turned to sepsis and he passed.

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SakuraFerretTrainer@reddit

This is my reality right now. I'm a nurse working in an aged care facility in Australia and for this shift, I'm in charge of 25 residents. We have 94 residents between 4 nurses.

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Niborus_Rex@reddit

Holy hell. I thought people in my organization had it bad with a maximum of one to eight at the physical rehab ward I work at and max one to six with our dementia pts. I will never complain again.

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SunnyAlwaysDaze@reddit

Also loads and loads of UTIs infections and bed sores. They're horrible places, a lot of them. People don't understand that when something is called a skilled care facility, it doesn't make it true. Having a person working there called a health care employee, doesn't mean they give a rat fart about your health one bit. In fact a lot of them are actively malicious. When I worked in one of these facilities, found out that a co-worker would hit patients. Like literally slapped them right in the face if they didn't comply with her directives quickly enough. I went to the head of the facility and told on her. Head of the facility looks at me and says, "there's nothing I can do, she comes to work everyday and I need her".

Impossible-World-557@reddit

Question, what would’ve happened if you had called an ambulance on her behalf to their location? Could the staff bar them from entering? I am genuinely curious. My grandfather was in memory care, and while absolutely horrendous in many ways he ended up passing in his sleep and we didn’t need to do emergency care like this, but this is a scenario I had never pictured, and it’s quite scary

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My dad lived in a government-operated residence for the last years of his life due to dementia. They preferred to leave my dad, who had severe dysphagia (problems swallowing), sitting slumped in his bed every morning for breakfast completely unsupervised because he was ‘grumpy’ when they had to wake him up, clean him, dress him and lift him out of bed. I had to be there every single morning to feed & clean him for the last year of his life just because they would have sooner let him choke to death alone in his room. I caught so many errors, whether it was whole food served to him when he was on a purée diet, whole pills and regular unthickened water served by an agency worker, the lack of hygiene…it was a horror show. I could not afford private care for him.

Have to blame regulations, the government decides how many wage slaves are required

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SquirtleCurdle@reddit

I know someone whose parents got rich running these. They just bought a second private jet because the first one was too big to fit in every airport. I hope they crash.

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wonderingWTFsgoingon@reddit

I worked in IT and had clients that were nursing homes. The private ones were MILES ahead of the experience vs the corp ones. The food and culture at the private ones were phenomenal. I was asked to join them a few times for dinner as i was there often to fix resident PC’s or other items like wifi, etc and the food was so good. Corp ones were almost exactly like this, crappy food made as lazily as possible… it’s sad how folks trying to live out the rest of their lives are basically treated so differently… it’s why in a big fan of the “Death with Dignity” options in some states… like I don’t wanna be in my 80’s or 90s doing this crap, just let me go

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moba_fett@reddit

Unfortunately, we have one of the largest generations creeping closer to needing these facilities and still being either blissfully, or painfully unaware of the treatment that awaits them.

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ChaseballBat@reddit

That's weird, cause my wife worked at one as a kid and it was really good food.

Im guessing the price has to do with it, this place is now like 5-6k a month for a room with a kitchenette and patio.

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Murky-Jump-6999@reddit

Watched this happen in real time. Worked at a corporate nursing home, but it was still being run with resident's first because the management staff were also the age of the younger residents. Corporate noticed that because we were giving them good quality food etc, they sent in a corporate overhaul team and brought in 30-40 year old suits to be the new management team.
Food quality dropped first, then they began insane rennovations (none of the residents wanted) to justify the cost cuts and appeal to millenials with a modern minimalism aesthetic so they'd put their parents in there.
Then I watched residents lose that spark in their eye they once had as the food taste changed, they didn't have staff do sensitivity trainings anymore, they turned it into dollar signs and I fucking despised it. My grandmother passed of dementia there and once she passed I got ready to quit because I had no reason to be there anymore

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Machaeon@reddit

Yeah my sister works in a similar position and good god the horror stories....

My hubby has worked in the kitchen at 3 senior care places. 2 were awful. His current one is really good. There are some decent places out there.

Having said that, I am the live-in caretaker for my 90+ year old mum - I would not send her to a care facility unless absolutely necessary. I have seen waaay too many "good" places from behind the scenes

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pineappleeeehla@reddit

I know of only ONE place that cooks everything fresh and its a private 22 bed facility

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confusedra2476@reddit

I worked in a nursing home kitchen and got into trouble multiple times for not following recipes. The food was ridiculously bland (i know you gotta be careful with salt but we still had a bunch of other seasonings)

Its rare for text-based stories to make me tear up, even really bad stuff. Something about this just makes me very, very sad. I'm so sorry your residents have to deal with this, and thank you for doing your best to help alleviate their suffering even a little bit.

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DayInTheLifeOfAGod@reddit

Yeah the only thing about going on those special diets is that severally cut your options from the commissary store

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PrimaryAd6332@reddit

I definitely got the vibe that most workers didn't give a rats ass about the patients at a nursing home my dad was at. Luckily, he made it out alive. But I was genuinely concerned to a smallish degree. Never really e enough saw his nurse, and i was there at least every few days if not everyday.

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snuggledubs2011@reddit

This is disgusting in so many ways. Those people are so neglected.

I was a CNA when I graduated from high school. It was a long time ago, but the government funded people were treated even worse.

My teacher would sneak us over to do clinical and take care of them first.
They were always so happy to see us.

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Admirable-Rabbit-918@reddit

Not gonna lie, I used to eat this as a teenager, and this made me crave it. I would like, sautee the crap out of the veggies though, maybe with added tvp? Used to be vegan.

But anyway, it's pleasant that way. I'd imagine this is way blander though.

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tias23111@reddit

Evil. Pure evil.

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SnazzleZazzle@reddit

I told my kids to fucking kill me instead of putting me in one of those places.

The thought of sharing a room with windows that don’t open and eating boring ill-prepared shit meals in my final days is very upsetting to me.

We make the staff eat what we serve the residents. Kinda a hassle when its lamb day or pizza day but helps keep us all in the same boat.

I work at a place that's around 10k minimum a month to stay, and the care is the same as every other facility I've worked at. Almost all fresh off the boat immigrants, and anywhere from 1/3rd to 1/2 are just awful.

Not that I have anything against immigrants but when you're working with people who all have hearing issues the ESL people have communication issues.

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soberasfrankenstein@reddit

TEN THOUSAND A MONTH?! I make like, 7k a month and I own my home and my car is paid off and I dont have kids so I can kinda buy fun stuff whenever I want. Thats horrifying, how do they afford that and for 10k a month I'd expect to be living it up for real (for context, I'm 40)

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adelros26@reddit

Where I work is $12k a month. And that’s on the cheap end in the area.

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LordofShit@reddit

They're all rich as hell. One of them was they guy that helped bill gates Sr get bill gates Jr into Harvard. Like to bitch about how that punk only stayed for a year after my resident put his name on the line for it. He still has meetings with lawyers and representatives and such, only now he does it in our dining room.

I've worked at a few nursing homes over the year, and at least the ones I was at had some lee-way in what we prepared and how we prepared it. We still had really tight budgets, but the residents were real people to us, and we put all the skills we could into making tasty, wholesome meals.

I work as a cook in a nursing home, and while I've never done a meal this awful, there's been plenty of times where I literally can't do what's on the menu, because we don't have the correct food for some stupid reason.

I do as much as I possibly can to make good food, including cooking special orders, but sometimes my hands are tied. It's disheartening. And it's supposedly a pretty good facility.

I am documenting when all of this happens, with the intention to report it. I doubt it'll really change anything though, as there's always some excuse. I definitely have no intention of surviving long enough to go into a nursing home.

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humanswedishfish@reddit

I think my supervisor would go to jail for murder if she saw me serving this at the living facility I work at

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RyouIshtar@reddit

“chicken and veggie quesadilla”

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celica18l@reddit

If you can look into insurance for long-term care. It can save you thousands and thousands of dollars.

I know how understaffed and underpaid these places are - thank you for being there for your residents.

Those places are mostly all horrendous. Another sad fact of life in America. The elderly are treated like shit. My family decided to do home care (lucky we could, not everyone can) after a small stay at one of these hellholes.

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shinichimechazawa@reddit

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aleada13@reddit

Name and shame. No reason an anonymous Reddit account shouldn’t name this shitty facility.

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NotQuiteInara@reddit

Jesus christ if I end up in a home like this I think I'd just end it

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jss58@reddit

Right there with ya, sis.

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scissormetimberz5@reddit

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Private Equity is the root of most problems in modern society.

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randyrandysonrandyso@reddit

I volunteered at a kitchen for recovering addicts for a few months, trying to get some award to pad my high school resume, and overspiced the chicken once. I still think about that mistake around 7 years later.