My wife used to work in a nursing home, a very nice upscale nursing home. They were given every opportunity to fix problems, and were still in constant danger of being shut down due to violations. The lowest price room you could get at this place was $3,000 per month. This was allegedly “independent living”, but they kept taking people who needed 24 hour care, and they couldn’t keep up with everyone who needed it.
I bet the solution is to pay people a good wage and actually invest in infrastructure.
Oh be serious, this is the US, not some hypothetical utopia like… many other nations.
A huge part of the struggle is private equity buying out and enshittifying nursing homes and other elderly care facilities.
Much of their enshittification is actually illegal, but the problem is enforcement. Inspections are rare, and – most egregiously – inspections are never done without giving the facility advance warning first.
Private equity is destroying everything. Nursing homes, hospitals, pharmacies, veterinarians, housing.
Hell, since the huge data center rush is raising electricity and water prices private equity firms saw dollar signs and started buying up utility companies to add their own increase for pure profit.
There’s no struggle. People want to do this physically punishing and mentally taxing work, but the pay is low and without benefits, you use your own transportation and devices, buy your own fuel, tires, maintenance, clock-in and note apps are intrusive AF, you pay for your own certifications, and heaven forbid you get hurt, because these places delay turning in Workers’ Comp, it’s slow to be approved, then you get the hellscape, piecemeal, contracted services, and if you’re still fortunate enough to have a job after that, they cut hours to nothing, or suddenly can’t find you suitable clients.
I personally think that funding has been cut to force people into “skilled nursing facilities,” owned by holding companies, that they can not afford, so they end up on Medicaid, if they qualify, which requires the recipient to sign over their home to the state, who then sells it to pay what Medicaid doesn’t cover, often to, wait for it… The same holding companies.
They should stop fucking over the younger generations
The people fucking over younger generations do not have this problem.
My parents have spent their entire life voting for war, tax cuts to billionaires, racism, nothing to help us, and donating to religious nut jobs. I ain’t jumping to help them. There are tons of cases like this
They vote for it because thats what the propaganda tells them to do. They are not without fault, as you said their names are on the ballots cast for fascism, but it was not their fault to be tricked by the propaganda into being the awful voters that are today.
My comment is saying that the people who this affects most are those without the means to have any significant impact on the world around them. The C-suites and pedophiles that caused the propaganda.
