How different eh? One of the residents daughter is getting married. The facilities are suitable for a wedding.
As long as it doesn't impact on the peace of the residents, otherwise it would be like someone holding a party in your home Nice tho' that the facility is there for those who want to host their family celebration that way
A Assisted Living Love Story My 92 year old next door neighbor George told me at breakfast this morning that he was thinking of flying to New York for a visit. He and I are pretty mobile with the use of our walkers and both relatively Sound Of Mind (at least at this point). I asked why the trip to New York. He told me that his wife died two years ago after a 71 year marriage and his conscience has been bothering him. He had met and married Marie here in Fresno. He met Marie while he was formally engaged to a woman in New York. He fell in love with Marie and cancelled the scheduled wedding with the New York woman and now his conscience was bothering him about that. He wants to see if she is still alive and if so ask if she would marry him. At this point Igot to wondering if George might be ready to transfer to the DEMENTIA section of our facility.
I don't know if he has dementia but I definitely think he needs counselling. If he is 92, she is almost certainly dead by now. If, by any chance she is still alive, she has probably long since forgotten him.
Filipino Nurses are much in demand and you will find them working in every country. The history of Filipino nurses goes back to the Spanish--American War and makes some interesting reading.
I can't speak for Filipino nurses overall but when I worked EMS in the Rio Grande Valley, the idea was that they worked cheaper.
People from certain ethnic backgrounds 'are' good workers I guess they know all about hard work its bred into them
Filipino Nurses have had excellent training and education and typically have a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. They are paid the same as other non Filipino nurses performing the same nursing function.
You don't know that. You couldn't possibly know that. Perhaps in some places they are, but many hospitals - every hospital in the Rio Grande Valley - employs more nurses from a staffing company than they hire in-house, and these were pretty much all Filipino because they worked cheaper. I'm not saying they didn't do a good job, as I hadn't noticed that the job they did was any different than the in-house nurses, but the hospital paid less for the Filipino staffing company than if they were to hire one from the mainland. I know that local nurses didn't like them because they kept wages down.
Well Ken-----The Phillipine Nurses Association of America is not a Union but does function to protect the financial interests of Filipino Nurses.
They are grateful to General Douglas MacArthur for returning to the Phillipines and saving their country from Japanese conquest. Hal
Now that I have lived for several months at Assisted Living and hearing better, I have had a chance to visit with a number of the residents. I thought every one living here had some kind of medical condition that required assistance. There are a number of senior single & married couples that have no health problems requiring daily assistance and have cars that they can still drive well. They just got tired of cooking for them- selves, doing home maintenance, paying property taxes. They sold their homes and live on the interest from the proceeds plus their Social Security and any pension benefits. They participate in the scheduled social activities that is provided by the facility. They all say that they are aware that because of their age they will no doubt develop medical problems that require assistance and living here would not require moving. So I guess it's not just me that was looking ahead.
My mother-in-law developed an illness that required care, but when she recovered and was offered discharge, she elected to stay in the nursing home, since she had been there long enough to develop friendships and become comfortable with the system. She lived out the remainder of her life there and was always happy, or at least content, with that decision.