nursing homes suck. i worked at one for 6 weeks and couldnt stand it anymore, i went home and cried every night. +1000000 to you for bringing him home.

 

me too. you have to be a real advocate for family in medical related situations anymore..30 mins of rehab a day is awful. nightshade has good advice. if it doesnt seem right get proactive. 77 is young now a days. most people in nursing homes need to get up and move. they r understaffed and undertrained.

 

This is my grandpa, he's 82:

http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/main...sl=generic.xsl
http://www.amsradar.org/meetings/atlas/index.html

(and yes, he talks about the weather a lot h:)

 

Wow. That's pretty cool. :thumbup:

 

as for the nursing home i can see that happening, if he refused to try or eat or do anything, the nurses wont force him or attepmt to feed or walk him, i was in one for a 2 weeks and my roommate could not stand he would just lay there in his own waste and the nurses took hours to change him but yea glad hes out.

 

My best friend is from Detroit. He went back to Detroit from L.A. to take care of his father. He was 30 at the time, and his dad was 77. His liver was failing from years of alcoholism, and had pretty much given up on life. He bathed is father, cleaned him up and did laundry after his father lost all functions. He did it all like it was something he was supposed to do. Not one complaint. The man that came back from Detroit was different than the man that initially left for Detroit.

If things go the way they are supposed to, we're supposed to outlast our parents. You seem like the kind of man that can hear the man in HIS voice so that he gets what he needs. Hopefully he has more time because of the love you have the ability to share with him.

 

thats deep man

 

my father did that for his father, before he (my grandfather) passed away.

my father is bad ass. i hope i become even half the man he is.

 

i work in a nursing home.

 

Mr. Atlas, cool name