Vice President Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing

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9. It is a hard job and the pay sucks

Wife is an RN of 40 years, recently retired. She spent the last 15 years as an RN case manager for elderly and disabled people in the community setting. Her main role was to authorize care in the client's home in order to keep them out of nursing homes. You would be amazed at how many adult children "forget" their elderly parents and basically leave them on their on to manage. She also visited nursing homes to assist people in returning to the community. Her colleagues in the nursing home reported that family seldom visited residents. This is a complicated issue that is about profits over people, lack of pay and training and apathy on many (not all) family members. We have had 3 elderly family members pass away and we(as a family) are proud that each one of them was cared for in homes by family members. There was never a discussion of nursing homes. It did not even cross our minds. Now we both come from large families so we had a fair amount of care giving assistance and sharing the care. Just saying.