SUMMARY - Long-Term Care Facilities
An elderly woman sits in the dining room of a long-term care home, waiting for lunch, her world reduced to this building, these hallways, these routines. She did not choose this - no one chooses this - but her dementia progressed until home care could not keep her safe, and this is where she lives now. A family visits their father, noting that he seems thinner, that his room smells, that staff seem rushed. They wonder if they made the right choice but know they had no capacity to care for him themselves.