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B: Yeah.
B: And the money is also another issue. How you're going to pay for it.
A: Right.
B: At that stage of life you only have so much money left
B: and I guess it's not exactly fair for the younger family members to have to put it in their savings.
A: Yeah.
B: I mean it is kind of fair,
B: but it's also not fair because they have their own children to raise.
A: Sure.
B: So it's another problem.
A: And you probably, if it were you, you probably wouldn't want someone choosing a place for you to live based on lowest price.
B: Right,
B: right.
B: So, it, it's just so complicated anymore, I think
B: People outlive their savings.
B: And, with medicine being the way it is, you're extending life where sometimes the quality of living has gone down
B: and they're not necessarily enjoying life anymore.
A: Yeah.
A: Well maybe that's the purpose of the nursing home is to have them go someplace where they can see that it's not worth continuing.
B: It's just a shame that's the way it has to be.
B: I think the retirement home idea's a nice idea. To go and find older people and with similar interests and someplace to stay
A: Yeah.
B: and cause like if your spouse died, all alone, it'd be nice to go someplace with people similar to you. To have friends.
A: Right.
A: Yeah,
A: I've known quite a few people that have, uh, gone to retirement communities.
A: I don't know if they have them back there
A: but here in California and in
B: Okay.
A: Uh, so, what do you think, uh, about putting the elderly in a nursing home?
B: Well, I think that it, it varies on on the individual basis.
A: Huh.
B: Uh, sometimes it is, there is no alternative.
A: Uh-huh
B: Uh, you do not have, uh, uh, family available or family that's, uh,
B: you may not even have family that is, uh, uh, in, you know, who are around.
A: That's true.
A: Yeah.
B: So, sometimes it's not an alternative.
A: Huh
B: And I think, uh, but I think also, sometimes it can be, uh, a benefit if it's for a short time.
B: Sometimes in a nursing home
A: Uh-huh.
B: uh, especially if, if it's after an acute illness.
B: To get over a,
B: or to rehab after, uh, an illness.
A: That's true.
A: I never thought of that.
A: Yeah.
B: Sometimes you know, sometimes the nursing homes are good for, uh, just short periods of time.
A: That's true,
A: until they get over that hump of whatever it is they're dealing with.
B: Uh-huh.
B: Because too often the acute hospitals will, are sending them out much faster than what they're really able to.
A: Yes.
A: They really are.
A: They don't like to keep them longer than a week.
B: So so there is some good to it.
A: Yeah.
B: Uh, sometimes too, it's used as a dumb job.
B: You know the well the families do not necessarily uh, know what to do with them
A: What do you mean?
B: and they don't want to take the responsibility
B: so they will put them in a nursing home.
A: Yeah,
A: that's true.
B: So you see, uh,
B: there's both sides to it too.
B: What do you think?
A: Yeah
A: and it depends on how, how sick the person is too. What you're capable of, like if you have a family to take care of, you know, of your own
B: Yeah.
A: Yeah,
A: uh, I would personally like it
A: if my parents were to get ill, I would like to take care of them at home and if I had the money with some help.
A: That's not always possible.
B: That's true.
A: But, uh, to the best of my ability, I'd like to do it until it gets impossible
B: I think that's also where you're going to have a lot of people who are going to,
B: it's there's not a choice, it's because, it's not economically feasible even to put them in a nursing home.
A: Right.
A: Uh-huh
A: Yeah.
B: So that, that option sometimes is not available if they do not have the, uh, either Medicare or insurance to cover it.
A: That's true.
A: Yeah.
B: So,
A: But I think nursing homes can be good.
A: It just depends on what kind they are.
A: You know, you need to check them out ahead of time.
B: Yeah,
B: and then there's also some that are set up for specialties
A: Uh-huh.
B: uh, I know some.
B: Unfortunately, some elderly have to go to or have, I guess it's Alzheimer's or where they wonder or, or, uh, confused or have some mental problem
A: Uh-huh.
A: Yeah,
A: that they're
B: And you need a special nursing home for that.
B: You need one that has a unit that's locked where they are not able to get out and roam around