Thinking Hard About Nursing Homes

This is a good article but, no, I don’t think we need to “rethink” nursing homes.

Rather, we need to think hard about nursing homes, possibly for the first time. Hardly anybody, now, gets the time and luxury of thinking before they put a family member in a nursing home. It is done in panic mode and, often enough, as part of the reign of terror known as “hospital discharge.”