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I voted no for one reason, and that is because most people never get out of the Nursing home once they're in there. In this day and age, we have more assisted living places to help the ones who are able to still function on their own with minimul assist. When they can no longer do enough on their own to meet certain criteria, then they are sent to the Nursing home for total care.

I have worked both sides, and before we got the assisted living built on, everyone went to the nursing home side, but some were there to recuperate from broken hips, strokes, etc. So a lot of them did get to go home. Some got increasingly worse, so they remained there for the duration of their lives.

We also had a lot of patients that had slight dementia, what some use to call senility, and it eventually went into advancing Alzheimer's. One side of the nursing home was set up as an Alzheimer's unit with special care and security measures.

I've already lost four of my aunts and uncles with Alzheimer's, so I know how it progresses. Most of them eventually get sent to locked Alzheimer's units at another more advanced facility. It's a heartbreaking disease and there is no cure. Hopefully there will be somedsy.

A lot of people really get upset at the very thought of going to live with those "OLD" people, as they call them. They just don't feel that they're ready to be put in a place like that. It's just as hard on the caring families as it is the resident.

And it would be hard. You raised your family. You payed off your retirement home, and now you can no longer live there because you have health problems from getting on in years. Isn't retiring what you have worked for all of your life? This is what it has come to.

A lot of the elderly people feel that the family doesn't want to be bothered anymore, which isn't true in most cases. But after a patient has fallen two or three times at home, being at home alone, is not an option. Eventually something gets broken, and it's usually a hip requiring surgery and recuperation. Some patients are so traumatized from the fall, that they fear walking and some never walk again.

Most nursing homes are equipped with re-habilitation aides under the supervision of a Physical Therapist. Therapy, such as range of motion, is done daily on each patient requiring therapy. Ambulation is important to keep the patient up and going. No one wants to wind up in a wheel chair any sooner than they have to.

Surprisingly enough, a lot of people

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