The Old Folks Home

Originally posted by Captain Strange
That's fine if you or your wife do not work.
Tricky if you both work.
We were quoted £14900 (about $22500) per month for a live in carer.
We are well off but still can't afford that.

That's £180,000 per year plus live-in costs; what did you ask for a surgeon?

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Nah she just got lucky 😛

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]The Old Folks Home

If you're fortunate enough to live that long, one day you'll probably be there as a resident.
If so what would be your priority criteria in the selection of an "Old Folks Home"?[/b]

make sure its not a private home, do you really want to go to a place that is more interested in profit than care.
Between £850 and £1000 a week, the daily food budget is £1.70 per person per day, i am talking about one private home a friend of mine works in.
staff cuts, budget cuts every month, sometimes on night shift two staff for over 30 residents.
All staff bullied if they tell a family member of a resident, its an automatic sacking.
hopefully not all homes are like that one, but given the choice i might prefer a one way ticket to switzerland

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby (Page 2)
If one of your own grandparents had written this poem
and then showed it to you during your next visit,
how would you respond?

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,-
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

Emily Dickinson

By way of contrast:

If one of your own grandparents had written this poem
and then showed it to you during your next visit,
how would you respond?

In the Desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.

I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it

“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”

By Stephen Crane