“The young live in nursing homes, too”
By nursing-home-lawyer | April 20, 2007
Here’s a great reminder about who is living in nursing homes these days. It’s the story of a 54-year old man suffering abuse in Boston:
A GOOD AGE - The young live in nursing homes, too
He was responding to my March 27 column about a 77-year-old woman in a Norwell nursing home. Unable to speak, she had to have her right leg amputated above the knee after a bedsore on her ankle turned into an infection that penetrated her bone and bloodstream.Her daughter has sued the nursing home and two doctors, alleging negligence and malpractice.
‘‘I just read the story about the woman in the nursing home in Norwell,’’ the man wrote. ‘‘That is a terrible thing - that her leg had to get in that condition, so that it was amputated. I am 54 and have been in a nursing home for almost two years.
‘‘There has to be some other way for someone like me, who was involved in an accident. MassHealth (Medicaid) is what is holding me up from getting out of here. My attorney has access to my Section 8 (subsidized housing) voucher. I have to turn over several thousand dollars I have in an IRA (a retirement savings account) in Rockland so my attorney can start the process. He just got an extension to June 30 on the housing voucher.
‘‘This morning some MORON came in my room at 4:30 a.m. and said, ‘Hey, how ya doin’?’ to the guy across from me and left. Now I was awake because of him. Then right after that, a woman who was transferred to a single room across from the nurses’ station started over two hours of WHINE. This is now the fourth day of this.
‘‘There needs to be someplace that someone like me can go to after an accident like the one I was involved in - instead of having to put up with this CRAP of being in a nursing home.’’ He closed with a quotation from John Forrester, a California engineer and cycling enthusiast who has written a book on effective and safe cycling: ‘‘‘Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles.’
- R.M.’’
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