More Than 65% of Nursing Homes May Close This Year

[FelineOverlord]

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[MustLoveBeagles]

1. K&R

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. Can't say it's a surprise.

But what will happen to those residence?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. That's scary.

What will happen to the current residents? What will that mean in the future? The need for nursing homes is huge. Some significant percentage of us will spend at least some time in one. If they are mostly closed, what then? Caring for extremely ill people at home isn't really a viable alternative.

Perhaps in the long run the recognition that there needs to be a lot of support and help (both financial and other ways) will surface, and much will change to accommodate those needs. In the short term, oh dear.

[roamer65]

5. They are going to be sent to relatives or their children's homes, if they have any.

The others will become homeless or die.

[Doreen]

6. A lot of people in those nursing homes have no family.

Where do they put the people who are bed ridden with no family? Are they going to put them in hospitals?

[Captain Zero]

11. there's less hospital beds than nursing home beds

so I doubt that's a solution.

[mucifer]

7. There will have to be a federal bail out

[exboyfil]

8. There needs to be assistance provided to families

So that they can take care of their elders. That may be the only choice.

[Marcuse]

9. It could become the choice in a post environment dystopian world. It's already in Europe.

[greenjar_01]

10. At $12,000-$15,000 a month per resident

Unreal.

[captain queeg]

12. Are they talking specifically about nursing home or are assisted living places included?

Generally a big difference. I’ve done some time in both types of these facilities. As the population ages this is really going to be a huge issue.

[Caliman73]

14. Likely talking about Skilled Nursing Facilities. Hard to say definitively.

One thing that bugs me about The US (and I only say this because it is the experience I have) is that our language and terminology is so vague and muddy. The article talks about the The American Healthcare Association and the National Center for Assisted Living, but then they talk about people put out of "nursing homes" having to go to Assisted Living, and the fact that Medicare doesn't cover Assisted Living so poor people are going to be SOL. It is confusing to me, and I work in protective services so I have a good amount of experience with the different types of elder care facilities.

We need to have a better discussion about the issue AND we need WAY WAY more infrastructure. This is going to become a serious crisis in the next 5 to 10 years.

Where I work, we have had at least 2 Skilled nursing facilities and 2 Assisted Living communities start to buckle under the weight of COVID-19.

[dalton99a]

13. Kick