wouldn't it be nice when we are all old, we all sit in one nice home drinking Bailey Irish Cream and hanging out on Seun's NL plus playing cards

**osisi:

Exactly.
they think it's easy
Even your pubic hair will turn grey overnight.

it is not easy, but people still do it.

people still do what?

osisi, i see your point and i think you are right

It's true that a lot of elderly living providers out there have bad raps for the horrible services they provide, but their are very nice ones out there, you just have to do your research. Call me crazy, I'll rather have my parents in a nice home where the can interact  with other occupants then at home where they are by themselves all day.

DeReloaded:

people still do what?  

keep their parent in their house plus their family, at least i know many people here who are doing it.

~Sissy~:

keep their parent in their house plus their family, at least i know many people here who are doing it.

would you like your mother in law living with you?

M

~Sissy~:

keep their parent in their house plus their family, at least i know many people here who are doing it.

Many people do it because they can't afford nursing homes.
They are expensive.
I know people who have taken care of sick parents till they died,many of them had to quit their jobs and get on welfare and they aged a great deal with all the stress.
Some end up diovorced from their spouses because the illness takes over the entire household.
No body wants to "send their parents away"
but sometimes a nursing home is the best option for sanity sake

OgidiBoy, that is very true. the interaction is good for them with regular visit from the children.

*Hauwa*:

OgidiBoy, that is very true. the interaction is good for them with[b] regular visit from the children[/b].

That is the key.
God forbid my parent ended up needing care,trust that I'll be at that nursing daily making sure they're taken care of.
Please God keep my parents healthy for me o
Amen!

My parents are gone, but while I was against the idea initially, now, I am beginning to realize that nursing home isnt that bad of an idea. I mean, you have folks taking care of your parents while you are away at work. Which is better, leaving your parents all by themselves at home and risk themselves to a life threatening danger, or have someone take care of them 24/7.

Amen! that's all we have pray for.

*Hauwa*:

OgidiBoy, that is very true. the interaction is good for them with regular visit from the children.

In my senior year in High School we would go out to this old folks home and volunteer. That was one of the best thing I'd ever done, I still go out there when I'm in down to visit. The impression we get sometimes from the media that old folks home is this gloomy sad place is not always true.

Not all nursing homes are bad.
Imagine if you had a parent that needed to be bathed,toileted,fed  and was on dialysis etc,you would keep her in your home here in the USA wth strangers coming in and out of your home and drive her to be dialysed 3 days a week plus all the specialist visits in between?
When there's an option of a place she could go and be cared for and you pay the bills and visit her daily.?
Plus she'll be having interaction with other residents of the home.

camnt say I blame people for being fearful though osisi

Some CNAs are disgusting esp those nasty Jamo ones. Very negligent and malicious.

Ndipe:

My parents are gone, but while I was against the idea initially, now, I am beginning to realize that nursing home isnt that bad of an idea. I mean, you have folks taking care of your parents while you are away at work. Which is better, leaving your parents all by themselves at home and risk themselves to a life threatening danger, or have someone take care of them 24/7.

I still remember the thread where you talked so lovingly about your parents and narrated the ordeal when you went home to bury your mom.
It was so touching.
Bless you.

Nursing homes are not bad at all.
Just because they found a  giant rat in the sweet and sour soup  pot at Asian cuisine doesn't mean restaurants are bad

ha! it is trouble if you are not taking care of them the right way with SW right?

even the nurses from africa are nurses from hell. they are always in a hurry and never smile

osisi don start, now don't spoil our chinese lo mein for us eww

*Hauwa*:


even the nurses from africa are nurses from hell. they are always in a hurry and never smile

Ghanaian CNAs are pretty phucked up too

DeReloaded:

camnt say I blame people for being fearful though osisi

Some CNAs are disgusting esp those nasty Jamo ones. Very negligent and malicious.

You're right.
The same Jamo could be the care giver people hire in their homes.

are you talking of Jamo CNA,someone talked of Naija nurses that'll flush the medications down the toilet because the shift was over
People are wicked

DeReloaded:

Ghanaian CNAs are pretty phucked up too

Haitians nko?
very crude plus they'll be speaking that their pidgin all over the place

**osisi:


are you talking of Jamo CNA,someone talked of Naija nurses that'll flush the medications down the toilet because the shift was over
People are wicked

Lmao I dont believe a Nigerian would waste meds, if anything they'll take it home for the holidays claiming it's new oyinbo medicine for their aging parents  

i think most of them didn't go into nursing for their humane nature but for the good money.

now that the baby boomers are coming of age, i wonder what's going to happen. i thot the philipinos nurses are the best.

reloaded,wasn't it in New York that a Jamo impregnated a woman in coma  in anursing home some years ago
The stupid idiot was sexually assaulting this woman until her belle started growing and an ultrasound showed a baby
and she delivered a mixed kid and a paternity test proved who the daddy was.
Very sick!

**osisi:

reloaded,wasn't it in New York that a Jamo impregnated a woman in coma  in anursing home some years ago
The stupid idiot was sexually assaulting this woman until her belle started growing and an ultrasound showed a baby
and she delivered a mixed kid and a paternity test proved who the daddy was.
Very sick!

Wow Ive heard of things like this but never knew they actually happen. Did the birth wake her up?

Then again Im not surprised. Those pigs would sleep with anything. Shameless lunatics. I cant freaking stand them

*Hauwa*:

i think most of them didn't go into nursing for their humane nature but for the good money.

now that the baby boomers are coming of age, i wonder what's going to happen. i thot the philipinos nurses are the best.

any Nigerian woman who was called to be a nurse went to Yaba school of Nursing and others not UNIBEN and UNICAL for sociology.
I don't trust any of these opportunistic nurses here.
They are all 419ers
none of them went in there for the love of that profession.
It's just a job
Thy care nothng about those patients
They are more interested in the overtime and the blonde wigs on their hair

**osisi:

They are more interested in the overtime and the blonde wigs on their hair

Lmao you know them well

overtime and blond wig

DeReloaded:

Lmao you know them well

My relatives here are married to them.
Very Igbotic chics with heavy accents,yellow in complexion ,gigantic earings with eyebrows like Eucharia anunobi-ekwu

Most caregivers come and go.
will they be trained nurses too?
and the caregiver would take her to the frequent doctor visits and is never expected to go on holidays,quit or call in sick?
do you know how much that costs?
If you (God forbid) had a mother than was stricken with alzheimers,you would keep her at home endangering her and your whole family?
Or you'll have her locked at some corner of your home with a caregiver (assuming you can afford it) rather than a home where she can interact with fellow patients and receive the care she needs.

You've given me a lot to think about, but I still wouldn't send her to a Nursing Home.
She wants to go back to naija anywayz.

Nursing homes would cook her the food she loved, wouldn't take care of her as should be taken.
A home healthcare worker has a one to one attention with her, which arely happens in th nursing home.

One "fair skinned " Nigerian nurse went to Nigeria for vacation and ran out of her bleaching cream and returned to America darker  than Kweku Amfosah
Even her own kids and friends thought she had contracted a terminal illness
A few months later she was "healed"

Ebony-Silk:

You've given me a lot to think about, but I still wouldn't send her to a Nursing Home.
She wants to go back to naija anywayz.

Nursing homes would cook her the food she loved, wouldn't take care of her as should be taken.
A home healthcare worker has a one to one attention with her, which arely happens in th nursing home.

In some homes,family can bring her their foods whenever they want to
but remember that most of these patients are on some special or modified diets.
Patients in nursing homes can also have one on one private care aides provided for by the families that can afford it.