Doctor Broke Law To Create Better Nursing Homes And Death Rates Plummeted

‘Once upon a time, in the early 1990s, a young upstate New York doctor transitioned from his career as a busy ER doctor to directing a humble nursing home. Even 25 years ago, aging was becoming seen as becoming more “useless” in society especially as depicted in media. Nursing homes were, and the majority still are – a bleak dead end. No frills, terrible food and entertainment, with nothing to look forward to each day in what are supposed to be a person’s golden years. The idea of rehabilitation or a full life is non-existent.
Haven’t you ever noticed that most nursing homes have morbidly symbolic names like “Sunset Homes?” As though an elder in a nursing home needed one more dreary reminder that their sun was “setting” – that light was leaving them instead of beckoning them for the day to begin. God forbid they ever use actual colors on the wall instead of soupy shades of mushroom. Or calming aromas that don’t involve urine sheets and ammoniacal disinfectant. But I digress a bit…’
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