What Do You Know About Nursing Homes and Rehabilitation and Care Centers?

When you were growing up, did you ever hear anyone say things like, I do not ever want to go into a nursing home; never let me live in a nursing home, and things like that. I am guessing that as a child and as a teenager, you never quite understood their reluctance about this particular kind of living or residence. Probably, you fgured that nursing is a good thing for people who need that kind of care, and home, that sounds quite inviting. But most likely, you never understood why some things were judged like that. After all, those who talked like that were juding all nursing homes as bad places to live. Most likely you have even heard some say they would rather die than live in a nursing home.

Very recently, I learned what the problem was and is regarding nursing homes and the list of the worst nursing homes. And I understood that the problem was and is universal and quite global. The truth is that hardly any senior citizens or disabled individuals want to live in nursing homes. And, now to make matters worse than that, I have discovered some of the many reasons why so many seniors and disabled individuals are dead-set against living in nursing homes.

These are some reasons why some flatly refuse to live in nursing homes and rehabilitation centers:

1. Some of the rehabilitation centers are very horrible places.


2. Some of them are understaffed and some are overcrowded.


3. Sometimes on some floors, you can smell a stench of vomit and or urine, throughout the floor.


4. Sometimes the residents are ignored and not being properly taken


5. Sometimes the nursing homes try to gain financially from some residents at the same time while they are not giving the proper care.


6. Sometimes there are restricted hours and days when visitors are not allowed to visit.


7. Sometimes residents are punished for having medical problems.


8. Sometimes residents are forced to wear diapers against their wills.

And these are just a few reasons why some seniors and some disabled individuals refuse to live in nursing homes and in rehabilitation and care centers. While this article is not about any particular, specific nursing home or rehabilitation and care center, you can be assured that the reasons listed above are very real and that the reasons listed above were actually given by some nursing home residents, patients and by some visitors and families.

If you are looking for a nursing home or rehabilitation and care center, you need to realize that even if the one that you are choosing is not on the list of worst rehabilitation and care centers or nursing homes, that does not mean that the facility that you are inspecting is a good facility. Sometimes all it means is that the facility has just not made the list yet.

Thoroughly check out all places that you might be transferred to. Ask for tours of the entire facility and ask if they will give you an unscheduled tour. Remember that when someone makes an appointment for you to tour the place, you are only seeing what they want you to see. It is on those unscheduled tours that you will learn so much more about the facilities as they really are.