Thursday, January 3, 2008

Long Term Storage – Fade Out, The End

A very interesting take on LTC and community-based options:

It reminds me way too much, of moving day. That is, moving day to a Long Term Care Facility. The day that our parent or grandparent moves out of their home community and into Long-Term Storage. Dropped off. All looking alike. All gathering dust. Fade out. The end.

Long Term Storage facilities. They all look and act very similar. They are all miles out of town, have a nice long entry driveway through a pastoral setting that ends at a drop-off porte cochere that enters a massive building that houses 50 to 100 residents in a setting that is quite unlike the home these residents have left behind. It is far away from their social network. And, this is really the only option for a lot of people. The only option, by default, is the best option. Also by default, it is the worst....

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