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  Shit is technically vomit
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  This is so true, however children in orphanages do get hopeful at times when people come to adopt them. Retirement homes don't even have that kind of hope. >
  
  Kids don't have morphine though so you win some you lose some. >
  
  Imagine, a morphinage >
  
  It’s Morphin Time >
  
  My grandma was roommates with her mother in the nursing home for a number of years. Great grandma was 14 when she had grandma. >
  
  My great grandma was in the retirement home with students she taught in kindergarten. She outlived many of them. She died at 108 >
  
  I scrolled past this, realized what I read and had to come back >
  
  As a therapist I resonate with this statement, im often the only person that residents get to have a conversation with… >
  
  Why don’t they talk with each other? >
  
  I would assume because either hearing loss of everyone involved makes it hard to communicate unless it's a quiet room with two persons in it or they think everyone else is stupid... And a lot of them are not able to just meet others without help. >
  
  I volunteered at a retirement home and a 50 year old guy and his mom were both there. The guy was soooo sweet and he ate lunch with his mom every day. If you were new, he would remind you every 5 minutes, “you know you have to bring me to my mom’s room at lunch time, right?” >
  
  My mom always hated that my dad side put grandpa on a nursing home and when I asked why she said " it's because you don't always get to see your family and as time goes on the people that surrounds you slowly disappeared and leaving you with dread and sadness " so yea >
  
  Or reverse jail sentence. 
  You go from 
  1) Minimal supervision with in and out privileges
  2) Open housing with no supervision but you are not allowed to leave
  3) Permanent inpatient/inmate in locked premise with people whose job it is to make sure that you don't leave
  4) Solitary confinement 
  5) Death >
  
  Just because someone lives in a retirement home doesn’t mean their parents are dead. >
  
  Just because someone lives in a orphanage doesn’t mean their parents are dead >
  
  Just because someone's dead doesn't mean I wanna stick my head up a butcher's ass to get a good look at a t-bone steak, I'd rather take a cow's word for it. >
  
  Why do I suddenly want to buy break pads from you? >
  
  Well, even if you don't take into account that the word is limited to mean children under 18, then all homes in which elderly people live by themselves or with a spouse or sibling are orphanages. >
  
  Or they are facilities that can provide the level of attention and care that family are just not qualified or physically able to provide.  I'm already caring for two family members who are disabled, while working full time. I don't have the ability to care for a 76 year old dementia patient with a propensity for wandering as well. >
  
  As someone who works in a care home it can be a bit depressing knowing that outside of hospital appointments etc. The only time these people will leave the home is when they die.