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Seems like a good place. Ignorance is bliss. That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost. My grandfather
by steve19 10y ago
Seems like a good place. Ignorance is bliss.
That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost.
My grandfather died in a nursing home that resembled a palatial hotel, with lots of staff making sure he was comfortable. He could afford it and it was well worth it.
A fancy village style campus, at the same or higher price, would have not made his experience any better.
Delivering high quality care at a low cost will disrupt the industry, a different high quality experience at an equally high cost won't.
- masklinn 10y ago> That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost. Yes, according to the wikipedia article costs are similar to normal nursing homes, although part of the village (the café-restaurant and the theatre) are open to or used by the surrounding community in order to help towards costs: > The café–restaurant is to some extent open to the public and the theatre is hired by local businesses, both of which help towards the running costs. The cost per resident is similar to more traditional nursing homes at around €5,000 per month. > A fancy village style campus, at the same or higher price, would have not made his experience any better. I don't know about that though, this scheme provides normalisation and possibly more stimulation (and more natural socialisation opportunities) than a more traditional nursing home, which according to Atul Gawande (in Being Mortal) can do a lot towards staving off degenerescence. I have seen significant speedup of degenerescence of the elderly once they're removed from their home and moved to more hospital-like facilities, the kind of facilities shown here can help a lot especially if patients can carry over a significant fraction of their previous environment (decoration, knick-knacks, …). Regular hospital or hospice/care facility visits also tend to be a bit weird and pretty uncomfortable (due to the odd/alien atmosphere) for families especially children, I'd expect this facility to be much more enjoyable to friends and families. The article notes pretty much that: > Patients can roam much more freely than in many elder car facilities. Patients here require fewer medications, eat better and live longer.
- melling 10y ago"disrupt the industry" A better "disruption" would be to find a cure, or at the very least slow the progress so people die from something else. There will be over 100 million people with dementia by 2050.
- nerdponx 10y agoPeople have to die from something eventually. Legal euthanasia is the real disruptive technology.
- melling 10y agoI imagine most people would only opt for euthanasia if they have an incurable disease or severely debilitated. If you are in reasonably good health in your 80's and 90's, you probably wouldn't choose death. Some families get alzheimer's in their 40's. Your disruption is euthanasia? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/health/02alzheimers.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/health/02alzheimers.html?p...
- nerdponx 10y agoI was just making a point about what I feel is a pervasive and ridiculous sentiment in pop medicine, that we can cure every disease. Plus, Alzheimer's can end up severely debilitating.