Assisted Living Workers Stay to Help Elderly After Shutdown While Not Receiving Any Pay

[SeaBreeze]

These two workers in an assisted living facility in California, stayed without pay to help the elderly who were left behind after a shutdown. This is the type of kindness we could use more of...http://www.npr.org/2014/11/21/365433685/if-we-left-they-wouldnt-have-nobody

When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go.The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except for cook Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the janitor.

"There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, 'What are we going to do?' " Rowland says.

"If we left, they wouldn't have nobody," the 34-year-old Alvarez says.

Their roles quickly transformed for the elderly residents, who needed round-the-clock care.

 

[AprilT]

Nice and very sad at the same time. Throw away seniors, just sickening, but it's so nice to see that those, young, concerned, men stuck around to assist the in the way that they did.

 

[jujube]

It's sad....so many of these elderly people in nursing homes have no relatives or at least none who care about them. Isn't there any government agency that would force a nursing home to transfer patients somewhere if they close down? One of my brothers-in-law became estranged from the family (his choice, his actions) and his kids didn't even know he had died in a nursing home until six months later.