Thank you for that craig57. My mother-in-law is in aged care and generally she is getting good care. She had 2 falls ; the first one she broke her hip and the second one a bone fracture.
There is a resident nurse & a GP available on call and her medications are well supervised and appropriate, IMO. We have a review of them every 6 months.
We and other family members visit as often as we can but IMO aged care homes should have/encourage more volunteers . From what I see its a rather lonely existence and many seem to not avail of the inhouse social activities and instead stare at the telly or catnap.
The institutionalisation of aged care and then its provatisation has evolved into a 'God's Waiting Room" system where the aged are locked away (out of sight/out of mind) and bed like caged hens and in many cases pilled-up to the eyebrows.
IMO there has to be a better family/community solution . Imagine if we did this to our children under 5!
