Comments on: Nursing Home Strippers?!?!

By: Beverly

Beverly — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:16:27 +0000

In reply to Da'e. June, she can't operate the wheel chair to even leave the room if she wanted to. I worked in a nursing home. I know how the entertainment portion of the day works. They are all corralled up, brought to a room, their wheel chairs locked in place and they stay there until the "entertainment" is done. Then they are all wheeled down the halls back to their rooms or community room and usually fed their meals. Very lonely life, but this activity is inappropriate.

By: June

June — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:14:26 +0000

In reply to Da'e. I've been around these places enough to know that the staff are overworked and the residents sometimes suffer for that, but no facility is going to force their residents to sit through a striptease if they stated that they were not interested.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:10:20 +0000

In most facilities the resident council is made up of residents who are alert and oriented, not those with dementia. These are residents who are higher functioning mentally but may have physical disabilities. I live in the area of the nursing home and was told families had to sign off on the activity for residents to participate. And supposedly this took place in the fall of 2012.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:08:29 +0000

In reply to Traci. That's possible, but I don't know, if she pretends she was coerced, I think it had to do with her son's influence over her. I think he's just after the money he assumes he'll get from a lawsuit.

By: Moe

Moe — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:06:54 +0000

My mother lives in a facility like this, and has Alzheimer's…she has a good and bad days…..on a good day I could imagine her enjoying this in the spirit of fun….I don't think we, the adult children and grandchildren get to micromanage everything the elderly are allowed to do….it takes away their dignity and their adulthood. Its one thing to "protect" a person with dementia, but another thing to "forbid" her to go to something like this that she has a choice to go to or not.