Originally Posted by
Baa_Baa
People get old, our fathers and our mothers, they move into retirement villages, we get that. What follows though is what SUM need to focus on. Some pour souls lose their faculties, others lose their health, worse even, some lose both. Even worse than that though, is some suffer either or both before they are old, not that they would know about it. Late-life, and early needy residents require health-providers who administer these pathways to accommodate all eventualities. This is an opportunity, to provide care, not a problem to be avoided. There is little that is more tragic and debilitating than for the aged who become infirmed, or the unfortunate, to have to be forced to leave their post-retirement / early late-life surroundings and be moved to a strange and uncomfortable existence in some other establishment. Does SUM get this? Are they missing the point? that late-life care of the infirmed, which almost all are in some way, is very profitable while at the same time very consoling and comforting to the resident and the bill payer -usually the one who has EPA.