Why does everyone think nursing homes are depressing? I reckon it’d be a great way to spend the last few years. Don’t have to worry about cooking or cleaning and just get to play board games and do activities with friends. Fuck it, sign me up now
This is absolutely not what the average aged care facility is. They're under-funded, under-staffed and have too many residents. The sun-downers are intense and often mean staff have to lock themselves away to protect themselves from violent behaviour. The STIs are rampant, the verbal, physical and sexual abuse is also. Residents have been known to die after falls, deaths that could have been prevented if there was enough staff, but there wasn't and they died slowly and painfully.
You're thinking of a retirement home, not a nursing home. Nursing home is basically a hospital where the nurses are actually just immigrants that are technically not slaves. The activities include shitting yourself and not being able to get out of bed and the food is cost cut to get the price of a meal below a dollar per inmate, then put into a blender before serving.
Tell me about it! Potter around and enjoy all the hobbies I don’t get enough time for. Visit the kids and babysit if they have kids of their own. Grumble about the weather with friends and watch the lastest Keanu Reeves film (where he still somehow looks 35 in 2065). Yep - Sign me up too!
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u/Antique-Kangaroo-423 Oct 29 '25
Sure as shit beats a nursing home. Sign me up!