There are so many retirement homes to choose from these days and you can find them in all corners of the country. Some are privately funded, whilst others rely on the government to keep them running. The Care Trust, a company who audit all manner of government departments has criticised the government-run homes for their below-par levels of interior design quality.

The government have responded to these claims by stating that they aim to increase their spend on retirement home maintenance by 15% over a five year period. The money will be spent on getting new painted furniture into the homes and improving the overall interior design and decorations to both modernise and brighten up the buildings.

Alister Pride from The Care Trust stated that it definitely wasn’t an issue of not having high enough standards of cleanliness. “We had no issue with tidiness or hygiene in the retirement homes” explained Pride. “We just felt the many homes had not kept up with the times and the décor was very drab”.People living in care homes don’t have a great deal of input into the interior design, despite many not being happy with the current one. He continued to say that they were very happy that the government had listened to their recommendations and they look forward to seeing the improvements.

The way the government has decided to tackle the problem is by creating specialist teams of designers and decorators to visit the homes. “The last thing we wanted was to just give the homes more money and watch it disappear on admin costs” stated a government spokesman. The specialist teams will visit the retirement homes in person over a 5 year time period and implement new furniture such as bedroom furniture. They will also be implementing colour schemes into the buildings and replacing old and decrepit items with new pieces like bedside tables and dining chairs.

Eye To Eye: Quality Elder Care At Less Cost

Our care giving dilemma derives many of its frustrations and heartaches from our parents’ and society’s centuries-old expectations that care giving for the elderly “is the children’s job.” This assumption is still the status quo even though you have no medical or gerontological training. It assumes that you will know the following:

-when, how and how much to intervene

-how to manage insurance benefits

-how to evaluate a nursing home

-how to cope Alzheimer’s disease

-how to resolve a host of other new and life altering care giving dilemmas.

The assumption also holds that you will find time to continue: -nurturing your children -being a good partner -working in your career -maintaining your own personal time and space The fact is that the world is a much different place than when our parents cared for their parents. They probably lived closer together, the women did not work outside the home and doctors spent more time with their patients, and the options for eldercare were very limited at best.

Now families may be scattered across the country or continents, both partners have spent years creating families and careers and there are so many options for a functional life expectancy that it takes a geriatric professional to understand them. Even so, in many families guilt wins out, and we continue the status quo.

But wait…We are the first generation, ever in the entire history of the world, to face the difficulties of living in a time where we may spend more years caring for elderly parents than we spent caring for our children.

How do elder-caregivers cope in a world where less than 1% of doctors are trained in geriatric medicine? Where up to 140,000 deaths annually occur from Adverse Drug Reactions yet only 720 out of our 200,000 pharmacists have geriatric training? And the entire care giving system relies on poorly paid workers with only 40 hours of training for effective and compassionate care? Add to this the inherent determination of most parents to keep their adult children from knowing anything about their medical needs or financial status and it’s easy to see why continued attempts at intervention may seem like a waste of time. They’re not. Education, planning, and communication can help overcome much of our parents’ resistance to our help.

But even though you are providing a valuable contribution to yourself, and to your elderly parents, you may be paying a price. Caregivers do suffer from anxiety and depression. Some resent the burden, but then feel guilt over the resentment. You may also be missing time from work, just as you do when you have to stay home because a child is ill. Some employers are friendly towards adult custodians of elderly parents, but some employees have not progressed to that point yet. This can be a source of additional stress.

Of course, you want to be a responsible adult child, and since you love your parents, you do want to make sure they are well cared for. However, you will not do anybody good in the long term if you do not accept some help when you need it. If you are feeling the strain, do not be afraid to look into sources of help.

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Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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