Just a curious question?

A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: Apr 19, 2012
I don't know of this will start any arguments and it's not my intention. But I'm a cna and I work full time in a nursing home. All of the residents are Caucasian. There is one resident that's African American but the whole facility really is Caucasian. So my question is why do mostly all Caucasian people put there elderly in a home ??? I'm Hispanic and I would work my ass off to keep my mom or dad with me. I understand some people really can't take care of there elderly but maybe it's a cultural thing ? Idk any input ?
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Avatar AweofFour
By: AweofFour
Member since Oct 19, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Maybe they feel that the quality of care would be better for them.
4dbbd7090 JosieBear
By: JosieBear
Member since Oct 21, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Is the majority of your city white? With few black people?
D9634147e kattemma
By: kattemma
Member since Jul 12, 2010
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I had to put my grandma in a home, the only reason she didn't come and live with me was because she has md and is losing her sight so rapidly that she needed a place that was friendly to that, my place has a step in bath, and 5 Steps up to the house.
She also wanted to hold onto as much dependence as she could, it's still a big adjustment, but she is feeling really good living on her own, in an assisted living unit.
Fb70984a8 Cajunki...
By: Cajunkitten70
Member since Jan 13, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Where do you live? I live I the deep south where it is very mixed. You see a very even number of races here in nursing homes. Also, maybe it's the particular home you are working in ?

Here, caucasians and african americans, often feel like they have to resort to nursing homes because most members of the family work so much that no one would be able to properly care for them at home. The working class here is pretty tight money wise and can't afford private home care.
19db76455 msjack
By: msjack
Member since Nov 05, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
its expesive for one for someone to care for your family member. i think its a waste of money. we would never put my grandmother in home i just love having her around. but mostly she wouldnt approve and wuld cut us out the will lol j/k.
9cf93c5e8 HK1325
By: HK1325
Member since Feb 02, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I've been working as a cna for many years and its the same situation where I live; however, I live in a 98% white area (small town in northern Wisconsin).

I don't know how fair it is to generalize it as white people tend to put their family in homes more often. all of the people I have worked with needed to be in assisted living for many different reasons.

as for my grandma who was recently put into assisted living, she refuses to move out of her hometown. she will not move into my mom or my house because she doesn't want to leave Hudson. which is ridiculous, but she has her mind and its her decision.
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I live in Joliet il very mixed !
Avatar janhiness
By: janhiness
Member since Jan 04, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
We have a huge family so before my grandma died everyone helped take care of her.
C507deca7 Best_Na...
By: Best_Name_Ever
Member since Oct 03, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Im a cna as well and all the residents are Caucasian except we have 1 black women but I live in a small town with mostly Caucasian so its kinda expected.
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
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588c09850 babyran...
By: babyrandi052312
Member since Apr 09, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Alot of the elderly want to be in a nursing home. They don't want to be a burden on the family. I love my grandma to death but I know she would never come live with me no matter how much I beg her. She wants to keep that feeling of being independent towards her family. So its not like every elderly person is in a nursing home because their family put them there. And i think the reason there is more white people is just coincidence. Im sure you could you go to another nursing home and there be more people of every race.
Avatar janelle80
By: janelle80
Member since Jul 19, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I am an lvn, and us nurses have talked about this often. We have a good mix in our local nursing homes but we notice that our caucasian residents rarely have visitors compared to our residents of other races. If we have a Hispanic resident they are visited daily by multiple family members, same with our portuguese and African American residents but many of our Caucasian residents won't have a visitor for weeks, months or ever. I never understood this cuz I am white myself and will do everything I can to take care of my parents in my home. But if I had to admit them I would be there all the time
Fb70984a8 Cajunki...
By: Cajunkitten70
Member since Jan 13, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I must say that although pretty much evenly mixed around here as far as residents , I have noticed that caucasians don't get as many visitors. I've volunteered in nursing homes since I was teen, and always noticed that.
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Randy sorry to say theres is a lot more whites on nursing homes it's really not a coinkidink google it statistics are allll there
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
And alot of the people in nursing homes I'm sure if they had an option wouldn want to live on a one room with a shower they all have to share I think we all have aspirations to grow old and die in our homes
588c09850 babyran...
By: babyrandi052312
Member since Apr 09, 2012
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Wow okay.
Ec5c2efe8 frannyt504
By: frannyt504
Member since Aug 15, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
We worked in several nursing homes in nursing school. I'm from New Orleans and there is a huge minority population. The ones we worked in were predominately white. There was 1 hell hole and it was mostly black. I've also seen that most of the white residents had fewer visitors but paid more money for their care. $5,000+ per month is a huge chunk of change.
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
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E85296673 amberskye
By: amberskye
Member since Nov 17, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
i think alot of it is gonna depend on where you live. My family recently put my grandmother in a nursing home but i can honestly say its because they're all very selfish and just dont want to deal with her.
47727e0ce alison30
By: alison30
Member since Mar 30, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I'm a white girl living in the uk and it's one of the things that I most admire about other cultures, the way they selflessly care for their elderly. We are rubbish at it! We managed to keep my nan in her own home with home carers until she died at 103, but i know we are a minority. I noticed that the best carers she had were those of a different race, particularly two somalian women. When my nan was cantankerous I would apologise, the white women were very short tempered with her but the other cultures always just said 'oh she's old' and continued to be kind to her. I'm a paediatric nurse but I have worked on geriatric wards in the past and have always noticed how (in particular Asian families) look after their own. The non white patients tended to have female relatives who would do all their personal hygiene for them and even bring in meals, where as some of the white patients were lucky to even get a visitor. It was also the same with the Irish travelling communities they would look after their elderly. These races would do whatever they could to keep their relatives out of a care home, I wish the same could be said for my own race!
E85296673 amberskye
By: amberskye
Member since Nov 17, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
also with my family, my uncle is her power of attorney and has enough money to hire someone to stay with her but he wont. and his house is huge, he has room and just doesnt want to take her in. My aunt is pretty much the same way. my dad doesn't have room but said he would take her in if needed. before the nursing home, she was living completely alone. she's 85 and has horrible Alzheimer's and its probably a miracle she never got herself killed.
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
I'm just thinking it's a Culturally excepted thing I know that I would never put my mom or dad in a nursing home if my kids do that to me I'm coming back to haunt them paranormal activity style ! Lol
Fa7bb2020 bednark
By: bednark
Member since Dec 29, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Op,
I live in Joliet/Plainfield
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
And also what I don't understand it that some of the nursing homes rent a month for each resident is 7000 a month ! Why cant you pay 7000 a month to have a live in caretaker in your HOME one on one ! Boggles my mind
A51e12207 18yrold...
By: 18yroldmomma
Member since Jul 10, 2011
Posted: on Apr 19, 2012
Bednark cool I've never actually talked to someone on here that lives so close do you agree that Joliet plainfeild Bolingbrook and minooka are all mixed ?
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