Becoming a senior means being accorded with the highest privileges, receiving all kinds of gifts and such accolades as befitting a senior. Well, at least it does in high school and college. When you become a senior citizen, the tables turn and you are treated suddenly more like a second class citizen, forget about even being treated as a senior. A retirement center in Kansas understands these problems. Orchard Crest Retirement Community sympathizes with the woes of a lot of Senior Living facilities and actively seeks to help residents feel as important as they have always been.
Hundreds of thousands of senior citizens reside in assisted living centers across the U.S. The purpose of such centers is to aid in the senior being in a facility that is pretty much like his or her own home, but with staff available where needed. The purpose is to give these elderly people their sense of independence and respect, something you wouldn’t get in a traditional nursing home. Unfortunately, as in most jobs, sufficient staffing has become an issue due to lack of funding, and the seniors suffer. Sometimes they get the wrong medicines or they are not being properly assisted as the program has promised or instructed it would do. A lot of times, the problem is due to lack of training of the workers, or a lack of viable support for the workers they do have. The problems surface in many departments of these assisted facilities and in particular, a lot of issues have been in the spotlight for lack of proper care in the memory care facilities. Because Alzheimer’s patients typically populate these places, extra attention must given them and sadly, there is just not enough staffing to do good job.
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