Depending on the level of care (assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing) such facilities in my state run between about 5k/month and 9k/month.
My experience having had a parent moving between several facilities over the past 4 years, is that most of the staff lack an education or the skills to have another job. Let’s face it - working with demented, frequently uncooperative old people who require changing of diapers, cleaning, and attention is a difficult, draining job. Just keeping the environment clean when residents may smear their excrement over everything they touch is a huge challenge. Workers are having to go resident to resident seeing to their needs. Residents can’t wear a mask or heed instructions to wash hands.
Even the fancier places have these same problems and the employee pool of workers tends to shuttle between facilities and employers. They will claim to be specially trained in memory care and a bunch of marketing jumbo jumbo, but in the end it’s the same uneducated workers caring for your loved one.
If your family member resident is harder to take care of then average, there is great pressure exerted by the staff to move him/her to another facility. And the same will happen at the next place. This can be very frustrating.
I can see why illness is very quick to spread in such facilities. There isn’t an easy solution. I have a lot of appreciation for the people who helped us keep my mom as comfortable as possible before she passed.
Depending on the level of care (assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing) such facilities in my state run between about 5k/month and 9k/month.
My experience having had a parent moving between several facilities over the past 4 years, is that most of the staff lack an education or the skills to have another job. Let’s face it - working with demented, frequently uncooperative old people who require changing of diapers, cleaning, and attention is a difficult, draining job. Just keeping the environment clean when residents may smear their excrement over everything they touch is a huge challenge. Workers are having to go resident to resident seeing to their needs. Residents can’t wear a mask or heed instructions to wash hands.
Even the fancier places have these same problems and the employee pool of workers tends to shuttle between facilities and employers. They will claim to be specially trained in memory care and a bunch of marketing jumbo jumbo, but in the end it’s the same uneducated workers caring for your loved one.
If your family member resident is harder to take care of then average, there is great pressure exerted by the staff to move him/her to another facility. And the same will happen at the next place. This can be very frustrating.
I can see why illness is very quick to spread in such facilities. There isn’t an easy solution. I have a lot of appreciation for the people who helped us keep my mom as comfortable as possible before she passed.