If your parent is in LTC and you care about them. Make sure to watch every fucking thing that the care center is doing especially if medications change for any reason. I worked with LTC for a while and I will take a long walk off a short cliff before I allow anyone to put me into one.
Over 75% of all deaths in LTC are preventable and are caused by human error. The people taking care of your elders are in many cases damn near incompetent. They might be nice but that wont help when they give someone a 3x dose of blood thinners.
I saw what Kent posted and the memory ward can be really nice or super creepy. Several LTC's actually set up "fake" bus stops outside of the ward since sometimes the people would "escape" and they would see the bus stop and go to sit down and wait for the bus. Made it a lot easier to find them. (That is one of the good parts).
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