B
Yeah. I'm, I'm, I have some great concerns about, uh, my parents and my relatives reaching that age. Um, around here, where I live in Maryland in the Washington area, there's, there's, and, uh, I used to live down in Dallas, there was just so many stories about, uh, rest homes where the people are being abused, where the people are being kept in filthy conditions. In fact, here in Baltimore they've actually shut a couple of them down and taken all the people out of them because they were so, uh, bug infested and rat infested. And, uh, I, it really concerns me, that, um, first of all, that anyone could let someone live like that, but if you have to, you know, how do you make sure, I mean, I'm sure when you make your appointment and go by, everybody puts on a happy face, um, you know, how are you sure that the home is really as good as it is, because once you put someone into there, you know, they may not like the fact that they've been put in there, and they might complain about the place all the time even though it's the best place in the whole world they could be, just because they want to make you feel guilty for putting them in there, and, you know.
A
Yeah, you don't know if their complaints are legitimate.
B
Yeah.
A
Um, we don't have that problem up here. We might maybe in a rural, uh, maybe there's a bad, uh, a bad home in a rural area, but it would be a very small one. Um, the one my grandmother's in is very, um, hospital like. There were some really nice ones here. All the, a lot of the nursing homes around here have very good reputations. Um, this one is more or less for someone who's poor and can't go there, and my father's, is, he's no by no means wealthy, but he's quite well off.
B
Uh-huh.
A
And he could easily have put her into a nicer, um, home, but up here there's waiting lists. And that was the first one that opened. And I suggested to him, Why don't you change. Um, he said, Well, these people here are, they are very nice to her. And he was saying his excuses, if you move her some place else, the people might not be so nice. So, the, the professionals in the nursing homes really have to want to do what their doing, because it's a really trying job. I mean, I go up twice a week to see my grandmother, and I know the staff very well. So they couldn't, they can't hide anything on you or anything like that.