Nursing Homes of the Past, Present and Future
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The concept of Nursing Homes was not yet known to man in his early days on planet Earth. Based totally on Biblical accounts, people didn't have need for such institutions since folk then reached ages of about 800 to 900 years. I speculate if they were using the same calendar systems we have now. That might render their reckoning of time measure, and so of the value of their age on earth or longevity indicators, erroneous. However, we use their information as a baseline since there is no popular document yet that refutes that.
The majority of these early Earth inhabitants died peacefully in old age without today's symptoms of weakness and helplessness. Others died in battles and wars and thus no care was needed except burial.
From factual historical and fictional readings, later civilisations had extremely unlucky fates for the old and dying. They were left alone in the streets or outback, some devoured by wild carnivorous animals. It was such for "primitive" man who looked not to feel guilt in treating their old and dying like a lowly animal. Only the aging royals were cared for even into their deathbeds in secure castles and palaces up to the last breath.
No-one can identify a date nursing houses started to come into being. Written accounts in the West indicates the presence of "poor farms" or "almshouses", established and maintained by the state for its bankrupted, most aged and incapacitated voters, alongside the destitute, the drunk and the loony. These facilities were characterised by decay and insufficient care services. This was a most lowly and shameful way to spend one's end days and states appeared to encourage that stigma of disgrace and shame to keep its ageing voters from counting on it. It was somehow bizarrely been made a "motivating factor" for the productive age grouping to work hard and make preparations for old age.
The top-flight of those days feared that stigma and some women's and spiritual groups, in order to avoid such fate for their once-respectable members, established the 1st models of our present-day nursing houses. But these facilities carried with it an exclusiveness reserved for "their own" with better care and facilities, in sheer contrast to the almshouses.
The New Deal of 1935 helped promote the concept US old voters should be federal beneficiaries of assistance on the grounds of need. The Social Security Act signed by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt provided old age help ( OAA ) grants to retired employees. Non-payment of these benefits to those living in almshouses lead the way to the establishment of private old-age houses, the precursors of the present-day nursing houses.
However melancholy old age looks to be, it is a fact of life and must be confronted like any other worldly matter. It isn't a matter to be futilely concerned about. There are many ways in which we can get ready for that eventuality in this age of opportunities and complicated commerce. |
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By :
Brian Goodwine
Submitted
2011-10-24 00:33:17 |
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