What Working at a Retirement Home Taught Me About the Elderly and Today’s Healthcare Racket
Sun 10:44 am +00:00, 9 Feb 2025 2
I’ve copied and pasted a few key sections, more at the above link
He makes 4 key points:
1 just how naively trusting the elderly are of their doctors
2 almost every resident is on a plethora of pharmaceutical drugs
3 few, if any, of the residents that I’ve talked to seem to know anything about what constitutes a healthy and balanced diet
4 all of the residents faithfully line up to receive their seasonal flu immunizations, including their Covid shot and boosters
Is it any different here in UK? No it isn’t as my recent direct experiences with elderly family confirm
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Since retiring a few years back, I’ve kept myself busy by working as a night attendant for a large retirement facility in the mid-West. The two main advantages of the job are that I get to meet some wonderful people as well as walk about seven miles each night which helps to keep me in generally good shape. Hearing the life stories of folks who have been on earth for the past eighty or ninety years and the insight they’ve learned has, at times, been fascinating and I’ve enjoyed it immensely.
Over the past few years, however, I’ve discovered many truths about our corrupt and broken Heathcare system, including just how badly uninformed enormous numbers of elderly people are about nutrition and the medical industrial complex that has largely taken over their lives.
The following are my observations and opinions based on numerous conversations with elderly residents. I don’t claim to be novel or innovative in my criticism of the contemporary Healthcare system. Nothing I’ve written here hasn’t also been said or written by someone else in some form. But this doesn’t make it any less true, and I hope some will be encouraged to rethink their opinion of doctors and the corrupt medical system that we’ve been subjected to.
The first thing I’ve learned is just how naively trusting the elderly are of their doctors. They really do view them as their ‘savior,’ almost godlike in a sense. To think their primary care physician may have ulterior motives other than the improvement of their personal health would come as a shock to a good many of them.
This is somewhat understandable, of course, since the doctors might have improved their health or even saved their lives in some instances. There are, indeed, good doctors out there, but even the best ones are caught up in a corrupt medical matrix that far too often places profit above the health of their patients. This is because America’s 4.5 trillion healthcare industry is a business, and their primary motivation is to make large profits for their investors and to raise enormous sums of money to pay staff, employees, maintain tech equipment and facilities.
Having talked to many of the residents, none of them from what I could determine view themselves as being their own health advocates. The notion is completely foreign to almost all of them. They wholly trust their doctors without question. They don’t challenge their physicians even when there are valid reasons for doing so. They don’t seem do any medical research on their ailments, despite their being a plethora of books, internet articles, and social media platforms that might address their particular disease or symptoms. They seem to know nothing about alternative medicine, the benefits of quality supplements, or homeopathic treatments. They don’t even think in such terms. Again, they completely trust all of what their doctors tell them and place full faith in the medical establishment.
This may be due to the era and culture out of which they have lived for many years, a time in which every institution, including the federal government, was trusted without question. The majority of their lives were spent in a high-trust society which contrasts sharply with our current no-trust society that we live in. Those days, however, are long gone, and there is every reason now to challenge and to question the contemporary medical system that we live under…….
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The second thing I’ve learned is that almost every resident is on a plethora of pharmaceutical drugs. One elderly gentleman proudly told me that’s he on fifteen separate medications each day, including four different blood pressure pills! Another woman told me that her doctor prescribed her nineteen separate pills that’s she’s required to take with her breakfast each morning. To many of these elderly folks, swallowing large numbers of pills each day is seen as perfectly normal which is a clear indicator of just how insane things have become in the Healthcare world.
In my opinion, some physicians intentionally load their elderly patients with more medications than they actually need as a way of meeting the prescription quotas required by their hospital. This is another way that big bucks are brought into the system. How about the flu shot? Ever notice how pushy nurses and doctors get or even annoyed when you refuse a flu shot? They take it so personal. I doubt that it’s because they care so much for your health. The real answer probably lies in the loss of revenue that occurs when patients refuse it.
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The third thing I’ve noticed is that few, if any, of the residents that I’ve talked to seem to know anything about what constitutes a healthy and balanced diet. They actually believe their dining hall feeds them good meals because it’s required by government guidelines from the sorely outdated food pyramid. What is not known by the residents is just how many chemicals and harmful additives are included in their meals. From what I could gather, the food is mostly cheap and highly processed as it likely is in every other Independent and Assisted Living facility. I very much doubt that the corporations who own such retirement centers scattered throughout the nation dictate that only organic and non-GMO ingredients are used in their food. This would be enormously costly, and I know of no corporation involved in elder care that does it.
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Lastly, almost all of the residents faithfully line up to receive their seasonal flu immunizations, including their Covid shot and boosters. This too, in my view, is a reflection of their complete trust in the medical establishment and by extension the federal government itself. I doubt any of them would believe me if I told them that the Covid pandemic was largely a scam and a diabolical effort by our government to gain total control over the American people. They would probably scoff at the idea that the Covid ‘vaccine’ was foolishly rushed and did not go through the rigorous testing procedures and allotted time that all other vaccines are required to endure. The ‘vaccine’ also proved to be ineffective and even dangerous for many people who mindlessly took the jab thinking the pharmaceutical companies could be trusted.
It starts at school where he teacher cannot be questioned.
A friend’s mother lived in a small village outside Aberdeen. She was in a care home because when on holiday in the US she had had a health problem and the operation was botched.
The residents had home-made cakes and soup every day and they ate well. The owner had two other homes and he had won prizes for the excellence of the care. He had been at school with one of my friend’s brothers and was well liked in the villages.
So decent places do exist and I suppose it depends on where you live.