When we reache the twilight of our lives is likely to end up in unaresidencia. We will resist as long as we live at home. Either alone or thanks to the care of the family. Only as a last resort agreed to go to nursing homes. Although perhaps this is not the best option, or face life, or our old age and that of those around us.
Nursing homes should not be seen as a last resort, go when we have no other place. Instead, they are places where we live, and do very well.
For starters there are different regimes. Is not the same go into a nursing home during the day, to spend a few hours to spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months of the year.
Nor is it the same people with whom we interact. There will be people with severe mental illness, sometimes with severe motor difficulties, perhaps with some other ailment without much importance.
We may, by linking them to people our age, keeping friends, talk about things that worry us with them … It is a misconception that the residence should be the end of life and a kind of cloister where everything is dark.
What is certain is that fundamental choice, and something should be done while you can. For this you can go to different websites, especially in specialized residential directories.
In Spain there are many residences, day centers … and although we believe there should be more and better equipped, there is what you get. As part of that, “what is” we think we can choose the best. As mentioned earlier, not all situations are the same, not all people are equal, so each case needs to be seen individually.
In any case, it is to live, to live a life worth living, regardless of where we are.
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