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Crowding!

Elderly care facilities on lockdown.
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Today I'm working to help a friend move his ailing and elderly mother from one home to the next. With the increasing elderly population, the institutions equipped to provide care for the elderly are starting to raise their prices and hoard their medical and personnel resources. People like my friend are feeling the hurt because they are being priced out of the system, and too few new care centers are being established.

Of course moving out of one center is one thing ... moving INTO a new one is even worse. The centers are all in lock-down and just to get into the building requires a battery of medical tests to ensure you're not bringing ReDS in with you. It makes sense, no institution wants all of its residents wiped out ... but where are we to go? There are folks who have been in Portland all their lives and yet are Exiles in their own town, now.

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Oct 11
ReDS,elderly,healthcare


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  • Ruud Dirven
    Oct 12
    We will quickly approach a point where it will be humane and sensible to offer euthanasia to the old and infirm. Then it will quickly become very uncomfortable for the old and infirm to not choose it. Then it will quickly become economically expedient to include those on welfare and government food banks in this service system. And so on.
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