My mom left my dad in a nursing home and lied about his chances of coming home
Dear Cary:
My elderly father had been ill. After improving, he went directly from the hospital into a nursing home.
We never told him he was never coming home.
My mother said keeping up some sort of illusion of his eventual return was a way to keep him busy there, but it ended up being something that seemed so cruel in reality. With that "return" in mind, my father would plan to the best of… » Full Story on Salon.com
My elderly father had been ill. After improving, he went directly from the hospital into a nursing home.
We never told him he was never coming home.
My mother said keeping up some sort of illusion of his eventual return was a way to keep him busy there, but it ended up being something that seemed so cruel in reality. With that "return" in mind, my father would plan to the best of… » Full Story on Salon.com
