Nursing Home Activism Action Essay

There were many choices and ways that I could have gone for my activism action assignment, and in the end I chose to work a shift with my friend Justin at a nursing home for the elderly. Since I will be discussing different details of the shift in this essay, I will leave the name of the nursing home disclosed. However, I can say that it is located in the Pickerington area which is very close to where I live. Going in to this I truly wanted to find out not necessarily the working conditions and of the employees, but to see how they treated the elderly and the sick at the nursing home. Since in class we’ve discussed institutions and society, and questioned how society has treated people who get up in age and what they essentially do with them. And on of the main things that people in society do once either their parents or relatives get to a certain age is that they put them in a nursing home because they essentially don’t want to deal with them any longer. The main objective of my activism action was to see if seniors and sick the …show more content…
Even as the workers at the home genuinely care for the residents, its still saddening that many families put their relatives in homes once they get to a certain age. There were exceptions to this certainly because some people truly did need the assistance because of an injury, however the bulk of residents in the home were there purely because of old age. This is very similar to how society takes away and doesn’t show certain women on television and in movies after they get to a certain age. It my not be to the extreme of putting them into a home, but society feels that as people get older, unless if you’re a man, they don’t want to see or deal with you. I really don’t have the best answers to a better alternative, but putting elderly people in a home is pretty much putting them in a place where they wait to die. There has to be and more considerate