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In my experience, most of the "high-risk" people in care homes would easily risk their life to visit their relatives for the holidays. The two options are: -
by tasuki 6y ago
In my experience, most of the "high-risk" people in care homes would easily risk their life to visit their relatives for the holidays.
The two options are:
- Go for it, you have guaranteed quality time with family and (unknown) risk of dying.
- Stay isolated, guaranteed miserable time alone, then you die anyway a bit later.
I'm not surprised at their choices. We should not be optimizing for length of life at the cost of its quality.
- antientropic 6y agoAn example of a false dichotomy if ever there was one. In reality there is a whole continuum of options, such as reducing the number of relatives you visit, or not visiting them at the height of a wave of infections. And of course "you die anyway a bit later" isn't true, with a vaccine on the way.
- goalieca 6y agoTo be blunt, people in long term care homes don’t have a long time to live. A couple of years and often under declining health. > 65% died within 1 year of nursing home admission > 53% died within 6 months of nursing home admission https://www.geripal.org/2010/08/length-of-stay-in-nursing-homes-at-end.html?m=1 https://www.geripal.org/2010/08/length-of-stay-in-nursing-ho...