Minimum Wage work gets minimum wage effort. Enjoy the bed sores and UTIs, boomers. You should've thought ahead when all of these LTCs and TCUs wanted less oversight and regulation. You played yourselves.
Womps and Pronkers.
Womps and Pronkers.
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WaPo: Maine (and soon to be dozens of other states) already suffering from understaffed elder care and lack of young workers
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If I get a bad prognosis and I'm over the age of 70 I will just end my life. I won't bankrupt my family and leave my kids with nothing just to cling to life for a few years.
On the other hand, you'll be expected to do the work of 2-3 people because of the shortage, if not already.
If you raise the pay enough then sure. But its going to take a lot more to get young people to live out in the middle of nowhere in Maine. These are pretty poor communities and may not be able to pay $30 an hour for home health care workers.
I know a lot of people might not be in the right place to do it, but I urge everyone who can to look into programs that help you keep your aging parents at home by paying for rented medical equipment and home health care aides. My mother worked in nursing homes for over 16 years and they're some of the penny pinchiest low quality facilities around. Most are corporate owned and only see the residents as bodies in a bed. They encourage people to put medical equipment in their rooms that they don't require just so they can charge more for it and they do things like count office workers as floor aides even though they don't actually help the perpetually short staffed employees who in turn hurt themselves trying to do too much in order not to get written up by supervisors for not getting work done while waiting for help that never comes. Occasionally you can find a small private facility that is decent but it's very rare.
People don't care about things until it affects them directly.
I also notice "lack of young workers" becoming an issues in other sectors as well.
Just yesterday I believe I was trying to be poached by our customer because at their facility in Florida a lot of the key players are retiring now and they are having a lot of trouble finding young talent to fill those roles.
Just yesterday I believe I was trying to be poached by our customer because at their facility in Florida a lot of the key players are retiring now and they are having a lot of trouble finding young talent to fill those roles.
And it will now affect them directly by the 19 year old CNA who makes 8.22 an hour and has 13 other 75+ year old residents not being able to do proper wound care or rounds to check for falls.
WOMPS. PRONKERS.
Did you read the article/quotes? It's cuz they were able to hire brown people to do the work. Operative term being were.
Yea that pay is awful. Nobody would take that kind of job when it pays less than fast food type work. Way more stressful and potentially longer hours for less pay makes no sense.
What should happen: dramatically increase immigration and raise wages for these service workers
What will happen: right as we are getting out from under student debt most of us will have to spend that money on elder care. Meanwhile boomers complain that millenials aren't buying their mcmansions they want to sell because they spend too much money on avocados.
What will happen: right as we are getting out from under student debt most of us will have to spend that money on elder care. Meanwhile boomers complain that millenials aren't buying their mcmansions they want to sell because they spend too much money on avocados.
This. Sounds like the jobs are underpaid.
Pay more and you'll get more workers.
It still baffles me that stuff like this aren't taught in most schools. It's stuff that every American should learn.
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I know the solution, I was being cheeky.
These articles always happen for shit jobs in healthcare, well in general and it's like the aides don't even make 30k. Who wants to wipe old ass for 30k?
If you don't want to cut the check, and you don't want "brown people" doing it, then good fucking luck.
I'm a nurse and right out of nursing school I worked in a nursing home. I really did the best I could for the residents but holy hell the work environment and support you get to care for the elderly is shit.
Many of the workers (especially the CNAs) are seriously underpaid and the ratios of residents that us nurses have to take care of frequently gets out of hand.
I only lasted 9 months (was trying to make it to a year but the physical demands of the job ended up being unacceptable). I now work in a facility where the work is MUCH less physical and I get paid more to do less work (and thus, more willing to do overtime since the work is a breeze comparatively).
Many of the workers (especially the CNAs) are seriously underpaid and the ratios of residents that us nurses have to take care of frequently gets out of hand.
I only lasted 9 months (was trying to make it to a year but the physical demands of the job ended up being unacceptable). I now work in a facility where the work is MUCH less physical and I get paid more to do less work (and thus, more willing to do overtime since the work is a breeze comparatively).
Had to find out about this the hard way. My mother walked out on us when I was four. The next time I hear from her she's literally on her death bed and the hospital is looking to me and my brother to pay. This shit is fucked.
Shit, most states usually have an exception if the parent abandoned the children for at least 10 years of their minority.
I couldn't find one (NH pre 2013) in the time the hospital was threatening to call collections. I was in the process of buying a house at the time and couldn't risk it.
The oldest Boomers only turned 73 this year.
If the facility is at least decent, there are not just late-age people living there. When my dad was placed in one for recovery and therapy from surgery the first time, there was an ALS patient (20's age) basically living there, he had his big TV and video games right in the room with him.
There are more people than just boomers that this affects.
Also, not everyone can do things or host things at home, particularly if there are too many accidents or falls. Additionally, someone might take the car for a drive when they are no longer really capable of driving, make a call or go online and make an order costing thousands of dollars, or simply fall down from weakness and not be able to get up without multiple people assisting. All this happened with my own dad unfortunately.
Politically speaking, in this campaign cycle the sell to the public on both better healthcare systems and immigration has been terrible, especially from the people who purportedly are touting the best alternatives. The current debate formats don't help in this regard, and clearly with the timing of the Sanders tweet above, neither does sniping at the press over coverage. What Medicare is and what it covers continues to be largely misunderstood.
If the facility is at least decent, there are not just late-age people living there. When my dad was placed in one for recovery and therapy from surgery the first time, there was an ALS patient (20's age) basically living there, he had his big TV and video games right in the room with him.
There are more people than just boomers that this affects.
Also, not everyone can do things or host things at home, particularly if there are too many accidents or falls. Additionally, someone might take the car for a drive when they are no longer really capable of driving, make a call or go online and make an order costing thousands of dollars, or simply fall down from weakness and not be able to get up without multiple people assisting. All this happened with my own dad unfortunately.
Politically speaking, in this campaign cycle the sell to the public on both better healthcare systems and immigration has been terrible, especially from the people who purportedly are touting the best alternatives. The current debate formats don't help in this regard, and clearly with the timing of the Sanders tweet above, neither does sniping at the press over coverage. What Medicare is and what it covers continues to be largely misunderstood.
This was in New Hampshire pre 2013 when the law was changed.
Its almost like CNA work shouldn't be paid like shit.
I worked as a CNA for two years and it was the most back breaking stressful, mentally taxing work I have ever done and I made 13 dollars an hour.
I worked as a CNA for two years and it was the most back breaking stressful, mentally taxing work I have ever done and I made 13 dollars an hour.
It was hell trying to find a place for my Mom last year, she has been on welfare and disabled since the late 1970s. She was 62 and couldn't take care of herself anymore. So instead, we were in the process of buying a bigger house in Arkansas to move her in with us from Phoenix. She died a week before we were going to move her out here. If we had acted 6 months sooner, she wouldn't have gotten sick. Mom always said she was fine, until it was too late. I won't make that mistake with my wife's parents. We'll move them in the second there may be trouble.
I have an autistic 6 year old at home, and my main goal in work is to put enough money away so that he can be looked after for 40-60 years 24/7, preferably in his own home, after I become too old to work (I'll likely work till the day I die).
I have an autistic 6 year old at home, and my main goal in work is to put enough money away so that he can be looked after for 40-60 years 24/7, preferably in his own home, after I become too old to work (I'll likely work till the day I die).
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Thank fucking God Bernie piped up, because the response to the original tweet was anemic at best.
Boomers spend their whole life enjoying a prosperous life, fuck us younger folks over time after time, and continue to make sure we are being fucked even though they themselves need us all because they can't stand the idea of immigrants, the poor, and the colored getting ahead and enjoying some of that American Dream. Oh fucking well. Can't fix fucking stupid.
Filial responsibility laws are blowing my mind. It's not as if I need motivation to do everything I can to make sure I don't become a financial burden, so I guess just add it to the pile. I would rather die than drag my kids down financially.
The proper response to these boomers is simple
That's my cash! I don't know you! And leave them to suffer like they fucked over the young.
That's my cash! I don't know you! And leave them to suffer like they fucked over the young.
I wish I got paid that when I was a DSP. I was lucky to take home 18K and that was full-time.
it's a thankless job where you're underpaid, overworked, and understaffed. who would want to do it?
Yeah I live in Maine and my doctor just retired cuz he's old. Ain't no young folk here in Maine, they all bail for Massachusetts. It's not just healthcare for the old but just a super brain drain in general. College grads leave the state in droves cuz there's nothing here for them. The jobs are pretty much Dunkin Donuts, elderly care, paving or dealing heroin.
Yes, the problem can be mitigated by immigration but it is inevitable and anti-immigration sentiment isn't going to make it better any time soon. Any governance that adopts anti-immigration rhetoric are simply committing demographic suicide for short term gains, which is something boomers are known for ironically.
No one deserves to be neglected there's tons of boomers who voted against these types of things too. They didn't all just vote as a block. Also your retribution is completely wasted because the rich greedy ones will all be able to hire personal assistants or live in swanky private homes .
WOOT! For once Texas isn't on the bad stuff list!