[HN Gopher] A Kind of Packaged Aging Process
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       A Kind of Packaged Aging Process
        
       Author : autokill
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-07-15 05:33 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | What I Did on my Summer Vacation.
        
       | GiorgioG wrote:
       | Am I the only one too dense to understand what the point of this
       | is?
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | It's an excerpt from a book published at the time of the
         | publication of this excerpt. It's meant to catch your interest
         | (or not), and if it succeeds possibly sell you on buying and
         | reading (or having in your home) the book.
        
       | sidpatil wrote:
       | A while back, I read someone had done a cost comparison between
       | nursing homes versus cruise ships for long-term residence. It
       | made a lot of sense, and I hadn't even considered the two as
       | comparable until then.
        
         | germinalphrase wrote:
         | If you need the nursing care involved in a nursing home, is a
         | cruise ship at all a comparable service?
        
           | narush wrote:
           | Yeah I think this is the real point of a nursing home often
           | times: making sure you can get medical care as you age.
        
             | handrous wrote:
             | If there aren't staff on the cruise ship to remind you to
             | brush your teeth, to ensure you take the correct pills at
             | the correct time, and to help you get to the toilet several
             | times per day, then I don't think they're comparable at
             | all, before actual medical care as in _treatment_ or
             | _rehabilitation_ of any kind enters the picture.
             | 
             | Ability to tolerate and care for residents in severe mental
             | and mobility decline are kind of _the_ differentiator
             | between a nursing home and other kinds of lodging.
        
         | thaeli wrote:
         | The comparison was between cruise ships and assisted living
         | facilities, which are a lower level of care. Nursing homes have
         | more medical care; assisted living is more "someone cooks and
         | cleans for you, but you can still go to the bathroom and get
         | dressed on your own."
         | 
         | Still, the basic point that a cruise ship has better amenities
         | and personal services than many "independent living" assisted-
         | living retirement homes that cost more does highlight how
         | ridiculously expensive senior care, even less acute senior
         | care, has become in America.
        
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