My friend Dennis and I visited another oldie in a nursing home Wednesday. We try to make a weekly visit and also catch up with him (Ralph) when his wife collects him to get together for our weekly gathering of oldies.
Ralph’s residential is quite nice. It houses and cares for, around 100+ clients. The building is largely powered by massive banks of solar panels. Ralph has his own room and the carers seem to be nice people mainly it would seem, from the Philippines and Southern Africa. Ralph can no longer walk and has only around 10% sight. He has been in care for approximately six months and seems to be coping reasonably well. In the home is an elderly woman who hovers near the front door and attempts to escape when visitors are entering and leaving. The main office is near the door and a call for a carer is made to thwart the escape.
Another friend’s father was in a similar situation and that establishment had built a replica of a bus stop and shelter within the grounds. Most would-be escapees just sat waiting for the bus to Fremantle.
2 comments:
I'm happy to know you make a point to visit old friends who have been are suffering from "old age" My heart aches for patients and their spouses. Heartbreaking that couples who have spent a life time together have to live apart during the end of their lives. Growing old "sucks"
I cannot imagine that I would go into
care.
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