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I haven't added up, MsMadge, but that sounds broadly what you'd expect, don't you think? Where did the figures come from?
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That just sounds wrong MsMadge. They used to quote stats like that for nursing homes, but even there the people are living longer.
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The stat came from a website on assisted living / memory care facilities -
assistedlivingtoday

I've seen a lot of folks pass and decline quickly in the past 20 months at mom's memory care but some have been there a long time too
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Don't know how we'd check! - or what you're supposed to do with the information, come to that.

My grandmother lasted less than three months (by her own force of will, admittedly). My great aunt fifteen months or so. But my ex's grandfather lived happily in his little self-contained apartment inside a nursing home for donkey's years, and my aunt in a similar set-up for at least fifteen.

I suppose it must depend on what takes them in in the first place, whether it's their own sensible plan or a crisis. And a rapid turnover of elders who've been hanging on by their finger nails at home and carried in on a stretcher would make the mean survival time plummet.
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Hey MsMadge! I took your suggestion and watched the SNL alien clip!!!
LMAO!!!
My frowning face muscles from the last couple of days sure felt good getting them stretched out!! 😂
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Sadly, when I tried to watch the sketch YouTube told me it wasn't allowed in my region. SMH
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A couple of times when I've gone in to see mom they've had her sitting in her room facing the window. Today I commented to the aides "you do realize she's blind, don't you?" I immediately got a song and dance about how they had gotten in trouble for leaving some of "them" sitting between the beds where the curtain hangs, but if I didn't want her facing the window they would never do it again, all said with a lot of unnecessary drama. 🙄
Uhm, no, I just thought it was weird that she would be alone in her room facing a window with her back to the door, blindly looking out on nothing. I really, seriously did wonder if they knew/remembered she was blind.
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CWillie...............:(

D*mn nursing homes!!!
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Cwillie,
One hoca resident's son complained his father was left facing the wall
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Oh dear God! - was that supposed to be a hint???!!!
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Sigh, groan. Breaking out in a sweat here.

Is there a shopping and/or hoarding gene identified yet, does anyone know? I know about the 'all women become like their mothers' chestnut, yes yes very funny but only half true. What I don't understand is how, given my long-running campaign against it, I'm still so drawn to mail order and have to use so many mental weapons to make my arm put all this crap in the recycling bin; and I wonder if I'm battling not only unsatisfactory self-discipline but in fact the whole of heredity, and therefore not giving myself enough support.

E.g.

Self: "Ooo. Those boots are really quite nice..."
Better Self: "Yes, they are. You know why you think so? Because they are remarkably similar to the boots that you already have, and which, by the way, you have yet to polish like you promised yourself you would when you bought them. At some expense. Not so many months ago."

Pause.

Better Self: "You do not need two pairs of very similar boots. Put the catalogue in the bin. Put it in the bin. No, not later. No, you don't want to see what else they're selling. Do it now. Now! Do it!"

Bloody hell. All I wanted was a quiet ten minutes with the Saturday newspaper and a coffee.
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Catalogs are the bane of my existence. They make you think that if you order those towels, your bathroom will look neat and shiny. If you order that dress, you will be as svelte and the young woman modeling it!
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It's consumerism plain and simple, hoarding only comes into play when you find yourself with umpteen of something that you have kept because "they're too good to throw out" or "I hate to get rid of that, I might need it later".
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But CW more and more I'm doing what she did - getting things (or resisting, so far, but I am becoming afraid, very afraid) for other people and storing them up for "Christmas/birthday/Easter/when she passes her driving test..."

The eco-friendly bamboo fibre running vest for Daughter 1, who's taken up fitness again and should be encouraged. The Japanese tempered steel knives that Son spoke approvingly of (albeit fourteen years ago, and he was choosing one for me, at my request, as a Big Birthday present). The Peruvian embroidered velvet that's just perfect for Daughter 2.

Items are catching my eye and I find myself *thinking* *up* reasons to get them. I know where this is going. I will end up with penguin clock radios and clip-on LED reading lights stockpiled in the wardrobe. This is a nightmare.
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CM
To wit, a day without an Amazon delivery is like a day without sunshine
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Where can I get a penguin clock radio?
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I love to look at those shopping mags,,, pick out what I want.. and then add the shipping and handleing.. Nope, no longer a bargain!! But its nice to dream!
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I'm 2 episodes behind in a show called Better Things. Now the Grandma fell and she has dementia. I can't decide if it's good this stuff is on t.v. or if I am demented for even watching it LOL!
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The Good Doctor was interesting to me at first, but Monday's episode was disappointing.
The reason, is the protrayal of Dr. Shawn Murphy on that day showed he was incompetent to handle the requirements of being a doctor. (Stress not handled, and lack of sleep, lack of judgment.)
My hubs explains the writers are on rotation, so the good ones obviously didn't write this episode. imo.
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I haven't watched that show, I've given up on TV. One thing that has been consistent through the years is that no matter how good the premise or fact based a show is at the beginning over time it will morph into something else altogether, the more sensational the better. And unfortunately because it began as a (loosely) fact based show the general audience will believe all that ish is factual too.
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I started to watch The Good Doctor..... I was so disappointed with the show as Dr. Shawn Murphy has such a limit exposure on the episodes. It's like there isn't enough to write about him, it's almost like he's doing a walk-in cameo instead of being THE main character.

I use to watch a lot of TV, but too many of the really good shows weren't renewed after the first season. I loved "Forever" about a doctor who never aged and was now over 100 years old but looked 40... he was solving current crimes by remembering situations back in the 1800's that he had witnessed.
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The only series that has really kept my interest over the years, and which I wish had been continued was JAG. It was a good blend of military life and discipline, how individuals conformed to or resisted it, the personal challenges they faced (none of them were Rambos), the insight displayed in handling some of those challenges, how they grew and matured over the years...

And of course there were the legal issues they faced in and out of the courtroom, defending their clients.

I just LOVED that show.
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Its Halloween season, and mom has been away so I binged watched the first 8 episodes of the second season of Penny Dreadful,,, I love good scarey things!! No blood and guts stuff, just good scares! Now to find a way to watch the last 3 episodes once she gets home!
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There's some kind of strange, horrible hard rain falling from the sky here...... I'm preparing for the apocalypse (or is that the zombie apocalypse?)
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Oh Sheesh Cwillie, hope that rain doesn't wash the whiskers off your little devil pumpkin.
There was a wet street this morning as the great big rainmaker in the sky must have wanted to spread a little cheer here too.
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There is a benefit to hoarding medical records from 20 years ago!
NFD.
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It's the darnedest thing, this rain seems to be.... frozen?
Yeah, it's just frozen rain, and I'm sticking to that.
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I heard if it's frozen, and yellow, don't eat it!
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Only in the movies Cwillie,
"In the end, the earth will freeze over".
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Y'all know.....you are not supposed to invite those trick-or-tweeters inside.
There could be just about a n y t h i n g in those little candies!
Cwillie? Are you there?
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