Many nursing homes feed residents on less than $10 a day: 'That's appallingly low.'

[Wicked Blue]

This is great investigative journalism that looks into the appalling greed that affects how many nursing homes are run. It's long but well worth reading. The NJ.com article has a paywall but I found it on MSN.com

According to the article, in one Oregon long-term care facility a resident was given one ravioli for dinner.

There's a companion article 'Inside the ‘multibillion-dollar game’ to funnel cash from nursing homes to sister companies', link https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/inside-the-multibillion-dollar-game-to-funnel-cash-from-nursing-homes-to-sister-companies/ar-AA1DUMfx -- Wicked Blue

NJ.com via MSN
Story by Ted Sherman, Susan K. Livio

The figure astounded Sam Brooks.

“They were talking about cutting costs and saying, ‘We’ll feed them on $6 a day,’ if you can imagine that,” said Brooks, a national advocate for residents in long-term care.

Brooks said he has watched as money has become the driving force at nursing homes, once largely run by small businesses, religious groups and nonprofits.

Perhaps nowhere is that change more easily noticed than on the dinner menu.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/many-nursing-homes-feed-residents-on-less-than-10-a-day-that-s-appallingly-low/ar-AA1DUOBn

[SheltieLover]

1. Take a peek at who owns nursing homes.

Follow the money. Always.

[FirstLight]

2. I hated visiting my dad's place when they served food

It was so gross. And they placed it in front of these poor people I don't know it look like prison rations to me. I understand that older people don't have the same taste buds but that's no excuse to feed them slop. I hated the place that my sister put my dad, so glad he's passed now and is free from all of that 🥺