The New Old Age - Getting to Know You

(Note from WCO: The article from the New York Post, below, quotes one of our associate facilities, Meadowlark Hills' Steve Shields, Manhattan, KS.) 

If you have a relative in a nursing home, you’ve probably had variants of these conversations:

Visitor: How’s my father doing today?
Aide: Which one is your father?

Or:

Visitor: Is my mother’s appetite better today?
Aide: I’m not sure; I wasn’t here yesterday.

Or:

Visitor: How’s my aunt getting along with her new roommate?
Aide: I’m sorry, I don’t know. I usually work on the third floor.

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