Has anyone had experience working in assisted living? did you like it.. yes/ no...and why?
I have worked in restaurants for years and understand that culture. Now i have been offered a job as the food & beverage director at an assisted living community that has 85 residents. 20% of which have alzheimers. i'm not concerned about the job description - i know how to run kitchens, staff, and service. My issue is going to the relatively unkown of the "old folks" culture.
given my 10 years in coorporate upscale fast paced restaurants... will i survive in loony land?
2007-12-15 06:21:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
come on people... have a sense of humor on the "loony" part. my own beloved grandma died from alzheimers.
2007-12-15 06:47:14 · update #1
First I want to say ignore Tammy
slk29406 . From their reply I would say they are professioanl insulters.
This job would be no different than any other job. If you want to love it you will like it , if you want to hate it you will.
I have been in the nursing home ministery off an on for several years. I have just started it again since I have retired. I am now doing 2 different nursing home every week.
The people are no different than anyone else. They have their good days and they have their bad days.
You do need to remember that their mind may be here at the moment and the next moment they will be living in the days of their childhood.
There has been days when I was preaching a sermon when the occupants where more aware of want was going on than some people I have seen in a regular church service. And their were days everyone of them would be asleepl
The best advice I can give you is you take the job give it 100% and then give it another 100%
2007-12-16 10:51:47 · answer #1 · answered by ira_1943 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aww don't take it personally..Do your job share a smile for most all the patients at these centers wake up with a new set of friends, without worries, and like an unwanted puppy. Cherish the time and learn of the old ways.. they sure can tell some delightful yarns..Remember Age is something we can not stop we must just pray we find peace..
2007-12-15 21:26:09 · answer #2 · answered by Brother Enrique 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will love it if you *want* to love it. You will hate it if you *want* to hate it.
Anyone I've known who worked or volunteered in an assisted living center or retirement home loved the clients. If they disliked anything, it was the culture of the staff and the bureaucracy, two things that can be good or bad in *any* environment/business/whatever.
I love elders. They are hilarious, they have great stories, they teach me important things, and they have seen it ALL!
2007-12-16 08:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jayne says READ MORE BOOKS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hon, I don't think this would be a good job for you. You need a certain attitude and want to help people not denigrate them. Remember, these people were productive citizens, worked their whole lives, raised families and something happened to their brains and nothing can be done to reverse it. Would you like your parents to have people taking care of them with the attitude you are presenting?
2007-12-15 14:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This job will really be one of the heart. I think you could make some great connections and have a great time if you are open to it. These people really need folks who CARE working around them.
2007-12-15 21:24:53 · answer #5 · answered by itsallgood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not if you go in with THAT attitude you wont! Personally I wouldn't want a biggot like you working in any home I was in! You'll be old one day, I hope you reap what you sow!!
2007-12-15 14:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tammy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋