There are:
Very few really good nursing homes.
We have two in Ellensburg. They are bad nursing homes but they aren't really good either.
There are many reason's why nursing homes aren't that good.
1. You have the lowest paid workers in the medical field doing most of the care for the patients.
2. Most people in nursing homes are not capable of managing their own lives so they go with the flow. They can be easily taken advantage of.
3. The workers become somewhat case hardened, and emotionally tough (they almost have to, to survive emotionally themselves) to dying and suffering.
I believe most nursing homes try their best to do the right thing but it is difficult for them. The owners are the ones making the bucks. Like I said there are some very good homes out there. Most nursing homes aren't bad but just muddle along.
Legally, try to get all your mother's assets transfered to a trusted family member. Both my father and my father-in-law had transfere all their estates six or seven years before they went into a nursing home and we didn't have much trouble.
But, my Foster Parents didn't and they lost everything to the government.
Keith
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