My reason for getting into Medical Office Administration would have to be, because of Josephine Caballero my grandmother. She is why I would love to get a job working in Geriatrics A branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and aging people. My grandmother was a woman I loved dearly, however she was very sick and crippled she relied on a wheelchair. She became paralyzed at the age of 34 and developed Rheumatoid Arthritis she remained in mobile till she passed at the age of 79. She was the kindest, loving, strong willed woman that I’ve ever known. She lived with my aunt in Long Island, New York. My aunt could no longer take care of her, and my grandmother refused to move to Florida to live with my mother. So we
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She was so happy and loved the Florida sun. I got a job as a dietary aid in a Senior Citizens Home. In this home there were many people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Even though I never worked with elderly people or with these diseases, I was still very happy to help and learn about it. I had spent most of my life helping my grandmother, so I felt very confident about the job. I worked there for 11/2 and saw so many different things going on with the residents, some good and some bad. The way people treated the elderly was shocking. I then thought about my grandmother who had spent so many years in a nursing home, and she was still so full of life. One day my grandmother became ill. My mother took my grandmother to the doctors and found out that she had kidney disease. It was so bad that both her kidneys were full of stone’s. She had to have surgery right away to remove them. We had no idea that she was this sick because the nursing home never told us. We then immediately got her to a doctor’s and tried to save her by sending her into surgery to remove the stone’s. She had a bad infection hidden in the stones that went into her blood system and took her life quickly. This could have all been avoided if we were notified by the nursing home that she was
She was so happy and loved the Florida sun. I got a job as a dietary aid in a Senior Citizens Home. In this home there were many people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Even though I never worked with elderly people or with these diseases, I was still very happy to help and learn about it. I had spent most of my life helping my grandmother, so I felt very confident about the job. I worked there for 11/2 and saw so many different things going on with the residents, some good and some bad. The way people treated the elderly was shocking. I then thought about my grandmother who had spent so many years in a nursing home, and she was still so full of life. One day my grandmother became ill. My mother took my grandmother to the doctors and found out that she had kidney disease. It was so bad that both her kidneys were full of stone’s. She had to have surgery right away to remove them. We had no idea that she was this sick because the nursing home never told us. We then immediately got her to a doctor’s and tried to save her by sending her into surgery to remove the stone’s. She had a bad infection hidden in the stones that went into her blood system and took her life quickly. This could have all been avoided if we were notified by the nursing home that she was