Nursing and Assisted Care Homes: Common misconceptions 8 Articles

by Lydia Hugo

I look back with humility (and shame) when remembering the haughty attitude with which I casually passed judgment upon those whose parents were in nursing homes. "How in the world could a family do that to a loved one?", ...read more

by Screwloose

I have no misconception whatsoever about what goes on in nursing homes. When I was very young, my first job was in a nursing home and what I saw would anger most and repulse all of us. I can remember my first encounter wa...read more

by David Barnett

Nursing homes. The one place that most people don't want to visit, let alone have to go to unless they absolutely have to. It is in places such as these where all that most really see are people in wheelchairs or walking w...read more

by Stephen D. Wilson

My mother has been in a nursing home for almost 7 years now. Her husband visits her everyday. They both are in Florida, I'm in Iowa so visits are far less frequent. My mother is blind, can't walk, and has had so many strok...read more

by Gail Kismet

"All nursing homes are evil, and so are the people that work in them." This direct quote was stated by my best friend's boyfriend when his family had been told by a local nursing home that they wouldn't accept his grandfa...read more

by Diane Wolfe

Why do most of the people I meet in my home town think that Nursing and Care homes are the worst places to be? Fair enough you do hear about some of them having bad reputations through having the wrong type of standards fo...read more

by Juanita Gooden

I once worked at a nursing home in Ocean Springs, Ms. When I worked at that nursing home, I got paid four dollars and twenty five cents an hour. on Mondays and Thursdays, my job was to call bingo to the patients. I only ...read more

by Sally Longson

One of the common misconceptions about care homes is that residents cannot take their pets with them. The suffering many residents endure as a result of having to say goodbye to their cherished pets who have often been ...read more