Sitemap - 2022 - Life In Long Term Care Land

Delivered some cookies to our elderly next door neighbors. What they told me about their Christmas plans made me very sad.

"Studying Disinformation"

Where Old People go to be Forgotten: Nursing Homes are "Total Institutions" Again

(Sarcastic) Opinion: Honor heroics and sacrifice of long-term care patients during pandemic

The Anxiety of Richard (Community Outings Finally Resume)!

Groundhog Day in US nursing homes.

“Misinformation” & related terms are rhetoric-of-science (fake science) political words

How COVID-Lockdowns & Eternal Nursing Home Prison Makes Late Life Depression Happen

"Misinformation" or "disinformation" were not terms widely used before 2017 or so.... why?

It Seems like Being a Politician May be an Independent Risk Factor for Dementia in the USA

Indispensible Concepts to Survive Today's Modern Media Cesspool & Political Climate

The Subtle Ageism and Ableism of "It's Just a Mask" (Or Universal Mask Mandates in Healthcare)

The Very Welcome Inevitable Failure of the Drive to turn the USA into a "Masking Culture"

Signs, Symptoms, Complaints & Claimants: A Medical History view of "Long Covid"

Three Months of GeroDoc. A retrospective.

Annual Reassessment of a NH Resident post-COVID: The Story of Richard

Ode to the Nursing Home Dining Hall in all it's Former Glory

"Moral Injury": an Internal Alarm System for Helping Professionals

Masking in Hospitals and Nursing Homes as a Major Causative Agent for “Confusion” in the Elderly

Older adults look at mouths more than eyes when they read emotions

Social Conformity & Cognitive Biases are more Powerful than Rational, Critical Thought in the Era of COVID - Even with so-called "Experts."

COVID Monomania has Allowed Nursing Homes to Disappear from the Public’s Attention

"Moral injury" in Healthcare due to COVID policy. Great thread

Biden & Trump vs COVID - what does it teach us?

Children & nursing homes

I'm never going to forget we did these things

Working at my Nursing Home used to be an Exercise of Hope - Now it's feeling Increasingly Hopeless due to COVID

My "Masking is Viciously Ableist" Post Has Provided Inspiration! Thank you.

Doctors "devastated" because of COVID b/c their kids miss summer camp while older adults die of loneliness

Comment from a nurse that stopped my heart cold

Nursing Home Prison Case Studies (Or - The Story of Mandy)

This hurt my heart reading this, & this is exactly why I speak out:

Update from the Nursing Home Prison Trenches:

Masking is viciously ableist (Along with plexiglass barriers, social distancing - anything that drives people apart)

Please remember your older adult relatives in Independence Day, especially the ones in nursing homes

NPR Pushes Absurd Outdoor Masking Infographic for July 4th. Those w/ dementia, hearing impairments, communication problems suffer most.

"Nursing Home Prison" includes Prison-Like Visitation Policies, including "window visits"

The 'Forever Masking' Crowd is Viciously Ableist - Call them out on it!

Geriatricians have been largely silent on the harms of lockdowns - why?

How does the last 2+ years of lockdowns make you feel about ending up in a nursing home when you're older, or if you need one?

The "Therapeutic State" - We are now "All-In" with COVID

How Eternal Nursing Home Prison is Completely Antithetical to the idea of Comfort-Focused Care

For Older adults in Nursing Homes - Masks are a Prison within a Prison

How to Keep Older Adults Imprisoned in Nursing Homes... Forever

Erratum - CMS guidelines say you *can* kiss and hug a loved on when you visit (but only in private)

"This Nursing home is like a Prison"

This gero doc can't take it anymore!

What have we done to US nursing homes in the name of COVID lockdowns?

Coming soon