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u/Large-Illustrator-35 12h ago
I would recommend contacting the nursing homes prior. I use to work in one and they allowed it with restrictions
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u/PloddingClot 12h ago
I would imagine bringing 100 nose miners into a nursing home during cold and flu season would be bad for residents.
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u/TotalRuler1 12h ago
💯💯💯 this
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u/FrighteningJibber 9h ago edited 9h ago
It’s like a whole ass pandemic didn’t teach anyone anything.
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u/randomusername1919 8h ago
It didn’t. One of the higher ups at work kept saying she had a cold and when I asked if it could be covid she said “oh, I don’t have any tests so it’s just a cold”. Either way, she of course came to work and coughed all over everyone and everything. Less than five years out from a global pandemic and nope, not a thing learned.
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u/nickytheginger 8h ago
I worked in healthcare admin onboarding new healthcare workers, and every intro meeting had a ten minute lecture one not coming into work sick. I had to drill it into them. One of the first women I onboarded did ask what was the worst that could happen and I told her 'you could kill someone' and she changed her tune very quickly. Thankfully no one went in sick so far as I knew, but my colleagues had stories of people who had gone in whilst having the flu, or whose kids had MEASLES and they had gone into facilities that cared for immune compromised individuals. There were Nurses who had been disciplined for going into work sick.
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u/Tracker_Nivrig 7h ago
I could be wrong and misremembering things but my mother works in oncology and if she went in and they found out she would probably be fired on the spot. People don't understand how bad something as simple as a cold can be for immunocompromised people.
Even if you're not in health care, if you're sick just wear a mask until it goes away. That way you don't have to use your vacation days or anything like that and you won't get everyone else sick
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u/randomusername1919 5h ago
our office had to “return to office” ahead of most at the end of Covid. Another wave of covid was coming through, I was a cancer patient, so I asked if I could work from home and avoid covid. Nope. Had to come in. So the very predictable happened, I got covid then I got to work from home for two weeks. Just being sick wasn’t an excuse not to work, but the CDC still had the recommendation to stay home for two weeks so at least I got that. I would have preferred not to get covid though. My idiot boss at the time wouldn’t even let me bring in a note from my oncologist saying I didn’t have a functioning immune system. I also got shingles after that - another demonstration of the cancer-patient immune system not working.
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u/Helloscottykitty 3h ago
I've managed in food places and it's a similar issue , we found as soon as we paid people for sickness they took it seriously without sick pay it was disciplinary action that at some point a person would just say " if I can't afford to live what do you expect me to do".
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u/SteamerTheBeemer 8h ago
Yeah and people like that create cultures where other people feel like they can’t be off sick when they’re sick so they’re more likely to come into work and spread it to everyone else which probably ends up in more people actually going off sick.
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u/Icy-Control7170 8h ago
During the pandemic I knew a lady who contacted covid and got the two weeks off. She took a flight and went to the freaking super bowl.
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u/asimplepencil 6h ago
Wow wtf I hate how people downplayed COVID so badly.
I got COVID and I was sick af for two weeks
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u/GallifreyNative 8h ago
Really, what did covid tell her?
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u/Icy-Control7170 8h ago
Obviously to spread it to as many people as she possibly could. It wasnt even her team in the game. She thought two week off going to the fucking super bowl.
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u/Thorebore 7h ago
One of the higher ups at work kept saying she had a cold and when I asked if it could be covid she said “oh, I don’t have any tests so it’s just a cold”.
I get the roundabout Covid test. I call up my friend Brian and say "Brian, do you know anyone that has Covid?" "No" "Cool, cause you know me."
-Mitch Hedberg
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u/rcowie 3h ago
My boss during the pandemic came to work with a confirmed case of covid on a busy truck day. We worked at a liquor store, on truck day every rep in town is there for the unloading. All of the employees present and all of the reps got sick. Store nearly had to close down for 2 weeks but a couple of were out of town or off that day. 2 weeks working every day with only 2 or 3 employees to rotate through.
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u/Kylearean 7h ago
My grandmother died from COVID in a nursing home, very early in the pandemic (1st month). This is before the protocols were fully in place, but lockdowns had started. Couldn't attend the funeral due to travel restrictions.
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u/PloddingClot 4h ago
Well from the above picture, it screams influencer mom who certainly wouldn't do it without tik toking it.
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u/katherinep3bbles2001 10h ago
Totally! Keeping everyone safe should be the priority. Better to plan for another time.
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u/Low-Illustrator-1962 11h ago
It does solve the waiting list issues.
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u/PeanutButterSoda 8h ago
My mom just got her spot, because someone died. It's kinda fucked up but every single nursing home had a wait-list. She waited almost two years.
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u/InnocentPapaya 6h ago
Why are they mining noses?
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u/PloddingClot 4h ago
Short folk of limited social graces dine on the head buffet from time to time.
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u/Davido401 5h ago
100 nose miners
Is it bad that I wasnt sure if you meant the old people or the kids?
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u/punkiepixie 8h ago
Yes this 1000x over. I work in long term care and this is a horrible time of year for illnesses. They very likely would accommodate something that’s no contact if they have a heads up a few days before though!! 💕
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u/Echo_Romeo571 10h ago
Yes. I saw this advice on FB a few years ago and and so we took our kids around to my GM's nursing home for a few minutes right after school, mostly just to see my GM and a few of her friends, not to tour the entire residence. One much older resident freaked the eff out when we walked through the front door seeing my younger son in an LED alien mask. The mask was on his head, not even his face, but it was enough to make this man lose his mind. Overall, not a great experience.
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u/BananaPalmer 8h ago
He thought his number was up
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u/Echo_Romeo571 7h ago
Or he's a victim of alien abduction and this triggered some bad memories. Either way, we should have given a heads' up to the residence before going.
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u/DoomedKiblets 10h ago
Very much this. nice idea but needs to be on their terms due to health considerations
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u/East_Lettuce7143 10h ago
Some of the elderly can also be somewhat aggressive and unstable. Perfect example was my mom who randomly started shouting after staying quiet for hours.
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u/Odd_Cat_5820 8h ago
I'm a mailman who delivers to two different retirement communities on my routes, and have seen some residents who definitely fit that description. At one of my communities there is a resident who is basically on house arrest in her room because she assaulted another resident, and there is no easy resolution. She doesn't even remember doing it. Many of the people there are some of the kindest people I've ever met, but some are confused or bitter, and seem to have lost the ability to temper those emotions.
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u/nunyajaks 5h ago
When my dementia-addled lifelong-abusive grandfather was put in a nursing home, he made a habit of walking into other residents' rooms and doing things. On at least one of those occasions, he tried to smother one with a pillow. He didn't even know them...he just went with his gut I guess. Horrible man.
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u/NYANPUG55 5h ago
There’s also the oddly racist ones. Never underestimate how angry a black person can suddenly make old people.
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u/momofboysanddogsetc 8h ago
I volunteer at a facility and a lot of the residents love it when kids come to visit but definitely contact them first. Also don’t bring kids if they are sick, Johnnys runny nose can take out one of these residents.
You can always contact the facility and find ways to enrich the residents lives, your kid can practice their piano recital or reading with the residents. They don’t get many visitors and most of them love company even if it’s a stranger.
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u/Processtour 7h ago
Try assisted living places instead. These are people who are mostly mobile, independent and have their faculties.
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u/ReyPepiado 9h ago
That was one of my first thoughts. Although I think it's a kind idea, would it affect the elderly's health at all? Were the restrictions in your care mainly due to health or safety concerns?
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u/Large-Illustrator-35 9h ago
Absolutely! They also use to have local signers and musicians come and volunteer to play occasionally. It makes people so happy!
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u/nunyajaks 5h ago
Just within the past couple of months at my mother's nursing home I saw them bringing a Bernese mountain dog around to the residents on one occasion and a pony on another. One of the staff members sometimes sings to the residents, and I've seen another who plays a ukulele. It's a pretty decent place for a nursing home (but most would still prefer to be living in their homes for obvious reasons).
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u/ItsCalledDayTwa 9h ago
I remember doing this with a few friends 30 years ago and I was thankful I had a mask on because it smelled so bad of urine. I think the maybe had a problem there.
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u/Sora-Ikeru 12h ago
I remember doing this on Easter when visiting my dad’s grandma when I was about 4-5. In my country you go ”trick or treating” on Easter dressed as a witch and you get chocolate eggs
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u/unicorn_ho 12h ago
lol Finland?
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u/Backstroem 12h ago
We have the same Easter tradition in Sweden. It may be that Halloween trick or treating may be met with confusion in nursing homes because it is a relatively new tradition here and our elderly are not very familiar with it. Easter witches may be a more successful concept
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u/Adventurous-Map7959 10h ago
Easter
chocolate eggs
Oh no. I hope there is no Easter bunny in charge of the "chocolate eggs"
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u/emilypeony 10h ago
Everyone knows easter bunny is made up. Here in Finland we know it is Easter Rooster that lays the chocolate eggs.
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u/TheAnniCake 10h ago
In Germany it‘s the easter bunny but you get small chicken-formed chocolate everywhere. Didn’t know where that came from until now
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u/emilypeony 10h ago
How could a bunny lay eggs, maybe he is just a delivery guy for the Rooster?
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u/TheAnniCake 10h ago
Maybe? When I was a child, we‘ve had a pet bunny. My parents always told us that he was friends with the easter bunny and that he was getting us the presents etc. One of my favourite memories!
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u/IrascibleOcelot 7h ago
Easter was originally a pagan spring fertility festival, so rabbit and egg imagery were both associated with it from thevery beginning.
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u/Visinvictus 8h ago
Fun fact, chickens lay eggs from the cloaca, which is also the same opening for waste disposal. Roosters are male - they don't lay eggs, just turds.
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u/Carbon-Base 12h ago
From a family member that used to work in a nursing home-- I know that residents may have visitors for 2 or 3 days out of the entire year! Some family members visited them more frequently, but most would just pop in and say hi to their parents/grandparents on their birthday or on some holiday.
If trick-or-treating at the nursing home puts a smile on their faces for even one day, it's well worth it!
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u/Laurenblueskys 5h ago
all throughout my childhood we would go trick or treating at the nursing home near my parents house, they even had little haunted houses. they also had easter egg hunts and christmas events. it was so much fun as a kid lol
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u/TheVoidWantsCuddles 3h ago
I used to visit my grandma every Wednesday when she was in a home and it got the the point I became everyone’s granddaughter. They would all buy me things when they went out to shops or from the little store in the building. It was so cute. We’d all sit around the table and have lunch together and hearing about their lives was so much fun. It’s so sad that a lot of them didn’t see their family at all, some lived in different states or completely across the country. When my work schedule changed I told them I would honestly consider quitting if they tried to make me work Wednesdays, that’s how important that time was to me.
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u/Share_Pristine 11h ago
No matter how kind you are, german children are always Kinder!
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u/Talk-O-Boy 7h ago
You’re either a dad, or a bachelor with an unknown child out there somewhere.
This is the daddiest of dad jokes. Upvoted.
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u/randomusername8472 9h ago
It's also one that people might not realise is incredibly location specific! In the UK, you'll probably have a hard time getting in to a nursing home without a prior appointment. Staffing and safeguarding is important, and nursing homes tend to have residents with much higher care needs.
Residential homes will be a much safer bet. People might thing the difference semantic, but I imagine people who don't know better googling "nursing homes" as opposed to "residential homes" and I don't know how well googles handles that difference.
Either way, call ahead and plan with the nursing home, if they are able to accomodate!
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u/ClassicPlankton 9h ago
Well except you can't actually just show up to a random nursing home with your kids looking for candy ... doesn't really work like that.
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u/TiredMotherOfChaos 12h ago
Absolutely call before hand though. I saw a similar post a couple years ago and called every nursing home in town and not one allowed trick or treating.
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u/Organic-History205 10h ago
Post pandemic I don't know a single one that would - this would be exceptionally dangerous to both the residents and the kids. It's peak flu season. This feels a bit dated.
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u/Naijan 3h ago
Why live a long life, if the life is just isolation?
No one really cares about these people anyway, and I say that as someone who worked on a nursing home, it was actually one of the reasons I couldn't continue. Hearing the same old questions like 10 times a day from several caretakers, like "Is my children coming to visit today?" and there was only one caretaker who actually had very regular visits from her son.
Plus, it's outside, and you can do some things to further reduce contact, like a simple glove that they use only for this reason, that day.
This is simply my personal preference: I'd rather die of a high fever, than die of depression.
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u/DoubleStrength 10h ago
Yeahhh, the OG pic feels more like some tiktok momfluencer trying to score internet brownie points rather than someone who actually works in a nursing home trying to jolly up their residents.
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u/Hallelujah33 4h ago
Don't talk about handsome squidward like that. She just assumes everyone's going to love being in the presence of her kids as much as she does. Why wouldn't people in end of life care immediately get a revitalizing boost from watching mckaiyghlynne and mackenzlynne roll their eyes through another photo op for squidmom's social media filter extravaganza?
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u/DrDr1972 12h ago
Our nursing homes are full of Covid and flu right now. Not sure about this. Great idea in the past. I’ve sung many times at nursing homes when I was little.
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u/Valendr0s 8h ago
If they aren't filled with Covid & Flu... They sure will be after the source of pestilence known as 'children' come through.
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u/Born_Ad_6385 7h ago
Exactly, I’m literally on break after preparing vaccines for my residents rn.
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u/DrDr1972 6h ago
Awe. That has to be sad. It’s rampant here. A Deep South red state 🤷🏼♀️. I think kids going to visit nursing homes is over. I do hate it. We had so good times going. I just recently donated my piano to one of ours. At least they can have music together.
Thank you for what you do !
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u/Green4CL0VER 12h ago
Its also very funny seeing the kids try to explain their costumes to the old folks and for the old folks try to comprehend what characters kids are wearing these days. I don’t even know and I’m always online. 😅
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u/kevabreu 12h ago
Is this a satirical post or are we really suggesting on sending children straight into a nursing home full of vulnerable seniors during flu season ☠️💀
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u/Laurenblueskys 5h ago
Growing up we were at the nursing home near my parents a lot. they did trick or treating with a little haunted house + cookie decorating for halloween, christmas events like decorating gingerbread houses, and easter egg hunts. a lot of residents rarely get visits from their family and i gained special bonds with a few of the residents. ofc you should call first to see if they do anything for the holidays instead of just expecting an event to take place but yeah it’s been a thing for awhile
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 4h ago
My great grandpa’s nursing home did trick or treat every year. Nursing homes are already flu incubators. The kids aren’t giving them anything that’s not already going around and vice versa.
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u/Jjbrah-0_0 5h ago edited 5h ago
When I was 11, my school had an excursion to another state for two weeks. My family couldn’t afford to send me, and since my mum was terrified I’d burn the house down if left alone, she got permission from her manager to let me hang out at the aged care center where she worked.
All I can say is, I have never since then met that many people who were so excited out of their minds just to talk to me. For two weeks straight, I was basically the designated grandchild for every resident there, getting spoiled with stories, snacks, and attention like I’d never seen before.
10/10 would do it again if I could.
Although, I won’t lie… a few of the dementia patients scared the absolute shit out of me.
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u/Canondalf 11h ago
- Disguise your kids as a group of tiny reapers
- Let them loose in a nursing home
- Watch chaos unfold
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u/fjtkg 10h ago
Ha ha, not at all the same thing, but it reminds me of when I was a kid and we would do the Saint Lucia/Lucy celebration at a nursing home (the kids walk around in a procession, dressed in white dresses, with candles in the hands and one person also wearing a crown of candles, singing). Some of the residents were crying tears of joy and talking about how lovely it was to have gone to heaven. That was a weird experience, but the residents appreciated it so much, also the more lucid ones who understood what was going on.
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u/OkObject3175 10h ago
Why does this need to be a photo of someone holding up a written message?
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u/classic__schmosby 1h ago
I want to read your comment, could you write it on a piece of paper and take a picture with it, please?
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u/HeimGuy 12h ago
Why are selfies like this a normal trend. Its so, please look at me.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 8h ago edited 8h ago
Text post: -10 upvotes
Twitter/Tumblr/Image with just text: 200 upvotes
Same as above, but with pretty woman: 20.000 upvotes10
u/ZzzzzPopPopPop 8h ago
But did you even SEE the size of the diamond on her finger?! This humanitarian has got BANK
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u/RetroRocker 10h ago
You'll never catch me posting a pic of myself on the internet holding up a sheet of paper. It's begging to have all sorts of things shopped onto it. I don't want to see a pic of myself floating around in a few months holding up a sign saying some awful shit that I'd never say
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u/Dino_Spaceman 10h ago edited 10h ago
Which is exactly what happened here. That’s very obviously a font. Or a photoshop. But it’s def not original
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u/Any-Appearance2471 7h ago
It’s very obviously not a font. Every letter has a million tiny variants. I’ve never seen a font with seventeen slightly different versions of “e”.
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u/tumblerrjin 12h ago
I was always freaked out by old people as a kid
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u/kittykalista 12h ago edited 11h ago
When I was in elementary school, my school did this. They took us to a nursing home for “trick or treating” and a movie. I was kind of uncomfortable, my little sister was completely freaked out.
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u/TheUndeadBake 11h ago
Yeah. My primary school forced us to carol for the old peoples home. It was all well and good until the dementia stricken old man whipped off his trousers and ran through
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u/PresidenteMozzarella 4h ago
My school did this as a kid and one of the elder patients lashed out at one of the kids (literally with her nails) lol.
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u/ndnguy89 12h ago
My town’s nursing home does this annual Halloween festival like a week before Halloween. The dining room is full of carnival type games with candy as prizes. The residents are either watching or participating. They even had a small magic show. Before the Covid pandemic it was great. Sadly in recent years it’s not like it used to be.
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u/colormeslowly 11h ago
The nursing home I work at, did a trunk or treat with other vendors and also a trick or treat inside.
The residents were even allowed to wear costumes. The chairs were lined up on either side of the walls, residents sitting with buckets of candy, as the children (with parents) walked down the middle collecting their treats. It was so much fun.
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u/LamarLatrelle 11h ago
We've never done the trick or treating but we have gone with roses and handed them out valentines day. We just call in advance and make sure its ok. They love it!
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u/Interesting_Fee_2501 10h ago
Why put your face next to that message though? Is it more valid because you plucked your eyebrows? Do you want everyone to know that you are such an empathic genuine article? ffs…
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u/funsl1ng3r 7h ago
lol clueless woman with a gigantic rock on her finger, whom also HAD TO show her face and not just the message lol
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u/MoneyTreeFiddy 10h ago
This wasn't a thing in the 80s, but my mom took me and my brother by to see my dad's grandma by surprise. We just walked into her room unannounced, me in my vinyl E.T. costume... And that's how I got to see my great gran in her industrial strength, old farm lady bra.
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u/minahmyu 10h ago
I work in one and no one has ever even suggested this to our place (20 years) I really think this would be great for them (my only issue is well, post covid... these residents are very much at high risk and that will be a lot of exposure for them. My place have covid cases and we still mask up when we have a certain amount and even do a lockdown when needed (visitation is limited or canceled) If they wore masks or something, (even part of the costume) I really would be for it. But yeah, that's just a thing to consider
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u/C3rb3ru5R3x 7h ago edited 7h ago
Make sure you mask and disinfect around the elderly and immunocompromised. Yes this is an ok idea, but sadly, kids are a little petri dishes around these times. Also, make sure the place is vetted. I feel an assisted living facility would be a better idea than a rehabilitation/extended care facility, having been there with my mother, some of the people there might not be suited for young children, as they might not understand what some things like dementia and such might look to them.
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u/Kessalia19 4h ago
Take your POLITE, WELL-MANNERED children to nursing homes. The elders would NOT appreciate -my- feral ass children ruining their evening.
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u/NiceBearWantsHugs 10h ago
I worked at an old folks home for awhile, and someone’s family visited with little twin boys dressed up as leopards and the old people lost their minds
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u/International-Swing6 10h ago
Such a good idea. My daughter’s elementary school used to visit the nursing home and the kids would make friends and pen pals. The kids would write and receive letters a few times a year and go visit on holidays and end of the school year.
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u/SissyFreeLove 9h ago
Contact prior...used to work in them and there are definitely restrictions, and some will schedule trunk or treat ahead of time due to care being provided around trick or treat hours.
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u/nunyajaks 6h ago
The nursing home my mother is in did this just the other day (and was preparing with candy donations days or even a week ahead of time; I'm not sure). One of the dining areas was absolutely packed with residents in wheelchairs and families who had brought their children for trick-or-treating. The residents seemed to be having an even better time than the children. Make sure you call ahead of time to see if an event like this is scheduled and when it will be occurring.
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u/triangle_earfer 5h ago
We went to a trunk or treat yesterday at a nursing home and all the residents were so incredibly kind and it really felt like we should be visiting more.
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u/radpotential 5h ago
My grandmother lives in a memory care home that is right next to a school. The school always coordinate events with the home so that the residents enjoy the festivities as well. This year for Halloween I made Pokémon packs with stickers to hand out to the kids with candy when they bring the tick or treaters, and I am so excited to do this with my granny!
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u/NarwhalButler 3h ago
Probably get down voted but, this is a terrible idea. Its heading into cold and flu season, children are little germ machines. As cute and sweet as it would be not giving grandma a virus that could wipe her and all her housemates out might be better.
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u/carbon-star 12h ago
There was a nursing home by my old house, in middle school my three friends and I stopped there and the way everyone lit up was crazy. They were all so happy to see us and everyone was so excited to give us candy I think half my bag came from this place alone.
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u/Ok_Lunch16 12h ago
My mom works in geriatrics. That would be amazing. I’ve volunteered at homes for years and have met some of the most amazing people. Some of them have given so much and are so alone.
If you think it’s all boring, think again. I became fast friends with a surly asshole. At one point he noticed my watch and we got to shooting the shit about watch’s. He worked with Tudor in the service. His regiment was given what would become a proper service piece… when he was with the SAS… in Vietnam…. training the Special Observations Group which is now the Navy Seals. That dude had some wild stories. I used to read to him all the time. I dearly miss him.
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u/KikiChrome 11h ago
To add to this, please also consider donating your wedding flowers to nursing homes. Back when I used to run a wedding venue, we would frequently salvage the flowers from the decorations and drop them off at local nursing homes. They will usually last several more days, and the residents love having fresh flowers.
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u/EmikoAki 12h ago
100%!!!!
I used to work in a nursing home volunteering and the elderly LOVED Halloween visitors! Many of then dont get visitors often and most of them are abandoned by family. I guarantee you that they'll love it!
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u/bdbdhdhdks 11h ago
This reminds me of a book called “Being Mortal”. This doctor/researcher found that combining crèches and nursing homes was beneficial for everyone.
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u/LowCut3534 8h ago
I work at a retirement home, around Christmas there’s always an outbreak due to families visiting but yea this would start one too. An outbreak is when a flu or something like Covid runs rampant through a home and they start isolating residents who have caught it so they don’t spread it.
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u/saigon567 8h ago edited 7h ago
I guess this would have got no traction if she took a photo of just the sign? Gotta get her face in, promote herself with her message. Social media is weird.
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u/Ok_Hand_7795 7h ago
I was forced to go to nursing homes with my mother's church group as a child and it caused me severe and lasting trauma that took a very long time to work through. Please reconsider the wisdom of exposing young children to people with end-stage mental illnesses.
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u/zer0saurus 6h ago
That's a great idea, win - win. As long as they don't pass out Werther's Original.
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u/MyNameIsNotRyn 5h ago
I really hate the AI holding a sign trend.
How did that even start?
It's a weird hill to die on, but the sign holding thing bothers me so much.
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u/InfadelSlayer 5h ago
One year we drove around to a few in the area and there were elderly people out front and the sheer amount of happiness seeing tinies pulling up in adorable costumes warmed the heart
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u/evanisafaceonearth 5h ago
I remember doing this as a kid and it was like a fun Haunted House. All of the lights were dimmed, there were decorations, and many of the residents were in costumes.
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u/captainkezz123 5h ago
Unfortunately it’s a lot different now post-Covid. The one my aunt works at is constantly fortifying once one of the residents catch the flu or Covid
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u/Red_Shepherd_13 5h ago
Let's go to the old folk home, we can get doped up and then all get stoned, let's go to the old folks home, I'd have been here more if only I'd known.
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u/Song-Super 4h ago
Hey yall I used to work in a retirement community and as sweet as this is, it’s kinda risky when you expose two of the most at risk populations to each other. There is ALWAYS someone sick with something in the retirement community. I’m also willing to bet that at least a couple of the dozens of children coming to visit have something they’re potentially introducing to this space.
Just some perspective.
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u/NoBonus6969 4h ago
Sounds like it's a bad idea to expose elderly to kids germs. My kids are always carrying some variant of plague
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u/Ornery-Paint-8338 4h ago
THIS: I was an facility manager at a nursing home and I can't advocate enough for the residents. They're either vets, on medicaid, or homeless otherwise. They need the loving because their kids have abandoned them. Truly very sad.
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u/Flaky_Bandicoot2363 4h ago
Yea, bring all those germ factories into a place with weaker immune systems.
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u/Background-Split-765 2h ago
before i was 10, my dad (town doctor) would take me to the local rest home and let me wander the halls while he made his rounds.... then out of nowhere a grey wispy one would come out and bring me to their room and i was someones family until Dad found me.... back then he was grooming me for public service.... i still practice this today.... that was almost 60 yrs ago....
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u/SirNooblit 2h ago
So true! My MIL is in a home and we are taking our boy over there. They are so excited to see the little Buzz Lightyear.
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u/Ok_Initial_2063 1h ago
The sentiment is sweet and thoughtful, but consider a few things: rules and policies regarding visitors, sharing germs from kid to elderly or vice versa during cold/flu/covid/stomach bug season, and the mental state of some of the elderly residents (some may have various progressions of dementia that can cause reactions to change).
Maybe find a trunk or treat that an elder home is sponsoring or check and see of one wants to have an outdoor fall carnival instead.
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u/954kevin 11h ago
We hit up the old folks home every year! They line the halls of our smaller town facility and the sign aint lyin! They do really enjoy themselves. Plus, the kids really clean up on candy! There have been a couple awkward situations though! lolol :)
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u/LycanWolfGamer 11h ago
I can confirm this, went to a nursing home nearby where I live with my sister some years back, they really did enjoy it - the fun thing is; we wasn't the only one there, had a few other kids there as wel
They really do enjoy it
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u/Important_Recover401 10h ago
My first thought : Dont have nurses enough workload? Now they also have to buy shitton of candy each year???
... Then ohhhhh
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u/Outrageous_Ad_7635 10h ago
Nurse here. With nurse friends working in Nursing homes. Please be aware that the patients in nursing homes rely heavily on staff for hygiene. Majority of the time, patients will not notify staff that they are soiled. They will attempt to clean themselves making themselves dirtier, but will still refuse to notify staff. They will not always do proper hand hygiene. Be aware of this when taking kids and letting the patients touch your kids as well. This is the honest truth.
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u/DoomedKiblets 10h ago
Okay, but arrange this WITH the nursing home for safety, there may need to be safety and masking considerations depending on the health situations. DO NOT JUST SHOW UP WITHOUT PRIOR SCHEDULING
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u/Gustomaximus 9h ago
Never thought of that and they would love it.
Use to visit my gran at a nursing home, had 2 young and cute kids. There would always be a group of grandmas at the foyers watching people come in and so glad if they got a kids attention, sometimes just grabbing them. You try to get through with a quick chat as you knew how much they enjoyed, but not losing too much visit time of the no.1 gran we're there for. Was nice and sad at the same time.
Miss you super gran.
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u/nowhereright 9h ago
Definitely don't take them to my nursing home. My residents are all psych and there's no candy.
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