How can we care better for the elderly?

Question

From a government, personal, environmental etc angle?

Answer 1

By treating the elderly with respect and dignity and not treat them has burdens or mental cases. In our culture wrinkles are looked down on and getting old is a curse there are people in nursing homes that would love to have a Bible study or the residents sung to or companioned. The elderly sadly is a ministry that many ignore. This generation has so much to offer to young people.

Answer 2

The Government needs to more manpower hours into policing the health care industry. They need to hire people that understand Nursing homes and really know what they are looking for! Most nursing homes know when the inspectors are coming and are ready for them when they walk in the door.

There needs to be more social worker to help out in the community with elders that are still in their homes.

Find a way to really fix Med-i- care. Bush only messed thing up!

Personal: Volunteer in Nursing Homes, Meals on wheels and maybe a program like Big sisters/brothers for the elderly (Adopt a Grandparent type program). If you have an elderly family member spend quality time with them, they get so lonely.

Environmental: Find ways for them to live in their own homes for as long a possible.

Answer 3

The government keeps taking money from us in the form of health care, increased cost of medications and medication programs, GAP programs, etc. If there were some way we could get the basic medical essentials without having to pay an arm and a leg for them it would be great. Medicaid and Medical are farces from the Seniors needs because they require that you only have a small amount in savings/investments. Again, they take our hard earned money saved over a life time in any way they can get it. Spend it, give it away or pay the pharmacies big bucks.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Right on Randy! I gave you a thumbs up.

I think it's appalling that folks want to extend life beyond all the signs and indications and step in and foul up mother nature.
It's disgusting.
My brother extended my mom's last year of life and her with advanced Alzheimer's. He wouldn't even let the daycare folks he finally hired to come to help, put her in a wheelchair so they could watch her better. Nooooo, if she moves more, she'll live longer. What the hell??? Poor ol thing didn't even get any rest when she was dying! And extending her process was cruel and only to serve his own guilt and need. But like you, sometimes we don't have any choices about such stuff.
My answer is the same as yours though.

For the Love of God, please look at what you're doing before you step in and try to "help" somebody. Sometimes, they are so much better off for lack of interference.
If my son dares to try to do something with me against my wishes, I'll knock him right alongside his head!

Answer 6

I do think the government should have programs to help elderly who want to live at home with their families to do so. They should have more home health care workers to assist families with their care.

I think the elderly have been shifted off to nursing homes where they are left to die alone. I think our society has forgotten the importance of keeping their family members home and giving them the care they deserve. Older people want to be with their loved ones, and children need to honor their parent's wishes to stay at home as long as it is possible.

My mother took care of my beloved grandmother when she was bedridden until she died at home with her family. I am caring for my mother, who has Alzheimer's disease and she is much happier with me then she would be anywhere else. Our society has forgotten the debt they owe to their parents who sacrificed so much for them.

I think it would be nice to create more day care centers for elderly where they can go for a few hours a day to engage in social activities and games, etc...
The government can help by cracking down on elderly abuse and neglect in nursing homes for seniors who are forced to live in these awful places because of having no place else to go.

If the government has the money to rebuild other countries, they surely can have programs for the most vulnerable in OUR country! For OUR people!

Answer 7

My wife is a Home Health Care worker. She loves her job.
Many people want to live out their lives at home and want their children visiting often during these years. What we need is someone to educate the children of the elderly.

Mommas and Daddies need their kids!!!

Answer 8

I think it is great we can stay in our own home and the government needs to make this possible by giving us the money to do just that ,,,as it is cheaper than putting us in the nursing homes, Back to $$$$$

Answer 9

Please leave the Federal goverment out of it! Nothing is free
somebody pays, usually the small tax payer, It already is taking a couple in marriage both working to support their growing families and trying to get kids through school, let alone food clothes and all else that comes in to play, those that drive a distance to work, gas bills are high. We already have too much goverment controling our life!

Answer 10

Leave us alone! I'm not "elderly" myself, yet, but I remember my dad who died 2 and one half years ago, from "old age", who kept warning people not to put him in an "old folks home" or hospital to die. He just wanted to be left alone so he could grow old and die at home. Well, he was 80 years old, almost 81, and was "dying at home" when my brainless, hysterical sister and mother put him in a local hospital, wherein he died. And they wouldn't even let him do that peacefully. Even after the hospital's medical assessment that he was dead, my sister and mother ordered them to keep him on life-support systems, for God-knows what reason. I spoke with the hospital staff and they said my dad was dead, but the machinery was keeping him breathing and his heart pumping. They said I had no legal right to terminate his "treatment", or mistreatment, since his wife was still alive and my sister was making the decisions for her, by her wants. So, from the perspective of the elderly, my dad at least, "Leave us alone!! Keep your 'bleeding-heart-liberal' hands to yourself!!!!!!" May my dad rest in peace, at least now, beyond the grave, as of March 1, 2005. God Bless you.