A
So, um, well, I'll tell you, my situation is, uh, I have an elderly grandmother that we did just recently put in a nursing home. And, um, her son, which is my father is also elderly, and this is one of the reasons why she had to go to the nursing home, is that she was literally driving him nuts in his later years. Now my father's almost eighty. My grandmother's almost ninety-seven.
B
Jeez.
A
So, um, it's strange, because it, it so, hit so close to home that um, my father's an only child, and really me and my sister are the only ones that will deal with my grandmother. She had many sisters, and a couple of them took care of her. And then one, her last sister died, and it was probably seven or eight months after that she had to go in a nursing home. Because I was pretty much giving up my life, my sister was, and plus she was driving my father crazy. She went through three housekeepers, live-in housekeepers. So, she's kind of cranky to get along with. There's nothing physically wrong with her, except she's very, very old, but her personality is, is very grating. I mean, I hope I don't get like that when I get old. So.
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.