My Grandpa recently had a fall and has had to go to physical therapy rehabilitation for his legs....It has made me think a lot about senior citizen care and how there are so many medical supplies that they need when they get older....not only extra care and constant attention but many other health related care items...
medical health supply stores are something that we have been to a lot lately trying to find things that help with his home care at home he doesn't have to go to a nursing home or anything...after his fall...he just needs extra medical supplies for home use...
those stores are greatly needed and appreciated because it is sometimes very difficult to find all the health supplies you need for senior care and not have to travel 50 miles away to find them!....they are very expensive some of them and they need to be affordable to everyone I believe...because everyone gets old someday ya know?
medicare will pay for some of those items but not all..which is sad because some old people are on a fixed income and some are very poor with no one to care for them...that makes me sad.
when I think about senior citizens homes for care I think about how expensive that is and how some of those older people have no one to stop by and see them or let them know they care...Our church sometimes in the past has taken gift care packages/baskets with things in them that older people need all the time..or flowers...and sometimes we have went and sang for them and they really enjoyed that!....
the little old ladies are so cute when they curl,wash, color their hair, manicure/pedicure their nails, and put makeup on them...that's sweet they do that for them so they will see how pretty they are!...
they have games for them, singing, dancing, some have church on sunday, celebrate holidays, birthday parties---all kinds of fun activities for them and I really think that is something they should all have for them....
it's also very important to have good, clean, kind, caring people working in those nursing homes to take good care of their welfare and well being...so many of those homes everywhere have had abuse in them and that makes me very upset and sad...
nursing homes are places that need up to date facilities, equipment, training, to be able to properly monitor the senior citizen's health and care for them at all times...they need to all be clean as well...
something else I also think is a good thing that every town and city needs is a senior citizens center...my grandparents sometimes have went in the past couple of years and they like meeting old friends their age and meeting new friends their age....
it's nice for them to be with people their age group and interact/talk with people that they understand how it feels to be their age group...they have dinners at noon, they have bingo/games, music, dancing, holidays, birthdays..all kinds of cute things like that....I'd certainly want to go to something like that when I get to be an old woman I think !....
love j.
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