r/AssistedLiving

Everything we eat here is processed. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Processed food servered on a styrofoam plate that is put in a microwave oven for cooking.

I share a room with an 87 year old woman who needs the temperature to be 80 degrees every day, around the clock. It's 106 outside. My nose keeps bleeding. They gave me a broken fan that only blows heat. I was told they ordered a part for it 2 weeks ago.

One of the workers don't like me. I catch hell from her everyday.

Im afraid to talk to the therapist they provided for me. I tell her everything is wonderful.

I must find housing so that I can get out of here. This is my third ALF. The first one, I was sexually violated (verbally) by a man because I beat him in chess. The second one, I was the only black person there and I was constantly called the n word by people with dementia. Staff insisted I just ignore it.

The worst thing I did was give up my apartment. Brochures make these place seem like 5 star hotels as you heal and prayerfully go home. They are dungeons with bad food and mean people to care for us.

I will never complain about anything here again. I will do my physical exercises, as I frantically search for public housing and get out of here. It's like a bad movie where I stuck and can't get out.

Just started today as a business office manager for a memory care assisted living facility.

I realized upon my few minutes there that they had added ‘greet visitors and residents’ and ‘answer phones’ to my list of responsibilities along with typical work such as payroll, medicare processing, financial processing, etc.

I thought that was a little odd since they didn’t really mention it in the interview or job description, but then on top of that, my office and desk.. are the front desk. Not even just me there either, it’s shared with another person next to me and nurses and other admin come and go as they please. The nurse cabinet up front is directly behind me. Nurses have to get behind me and possibly see my computer and paperwork to get to their cabinet.

What I really need help with is, is this normal, or even HIPAA or HR allowed for what I will be working on? And also, does that therefore make me the BOM & the receptionist (even though that was not mentioned in the interview process)? Hoping to see some responses to put my anxiety at ease about this, but it feels very off. Thanks for the help!

My father is in an assisted living memory care facility in Florida. We've been having some issues with the facility about some of their methods for dealing with concerns and incidents that have been occurring, as well as a few specific situations that point towards larger problems. Does anyone know of any resources for people struggling to work with assisted living facilities in managing the care of their family member? I'm not sure how much of the pushback is reasonable, how much of the problem solving should be placed on the family, and how much is something to be concerned about.

Thanks!

Tonight we had a local nursing facility send a demented hospice patient at 3am because they took longer than normal to wake up. No other complaints, patient not sure why they are in the ER. Family is pissed. Why was the patient even being woken up at this hour?!

On the flip side we had another patient sent in from a different local facility. They were demented, septic as fuck. Diaper caked in old stool. They probably hadn't been changed in at least a couple of days. Raging UTI on work up. We made APS aware.

Are nursing homes this bad where you are located? Seems like there are few consequences for providing shitty nursing home care and dumping on the ER.