Last Week Tonight - Long-Term Care

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If you've recently heard about all the fuckery happening in long-term care facilities during COVID, John Oliver discusses how that fuckery has been happening for a long time and what can be done about it.

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OP Note: from a disability advocate perspective, this has been an longstanding issue in this community and I'm glad it's getting

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[blorpz]

it's going to be even worse than i imagine when i watch it

just another drop in the "gtfo of america" bucket for me

[xorogueox]

This was my absolute worst fucking rotation. I work in ICU now, I’ve watched patients die, but I would never want to work at a nursing home or ALF. In my field they pay more, too. I would be in patients’ rooms trying not to cry.

[sunshinefun27]

The patient to carer ratios are insane.

[lolita_applebum]

I got my CNA through clinicals in a a long term care facility and that site probably scared me from continuing on on getting a nursing degree. I work in the admin side now

[marmar627]

I feel like I should watch this, but I feel like it'll upset me too much, like HBO's Bleed Out documentary from a few years ago. My dad languished in LTACs after becoming a quadriplegic.