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Sauce: Nursing home booze ban inspires Minnesota woman to fight for her right to party | CBC Radio: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/grandparent-happy-hour-9.7282379
robpaschal
When I hit 80, the rules change. I'm eating what I want. Drinking all day. Smoking. Might try heroin.
AdmiralJohn
When I was a nursing assistant back in the early 90's we had one resident who was given one beer each day and she actually had a prescription for it; it was given to her by the nurses during their drug passes.
Osiricus
Now, they've crossed the line.
Jamerperson
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Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
I'll see if I can fix it. Here is the link in case my post won't edit.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/grandparent-happy-hour-9.7282379
StupidCanadianWolfBird
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Smashaga
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horsetuna
Alcohol can be bad depending what medicine you're on so on one hand I understand but I don't agree.
Z0op
Yes, but that is also true when not in a care home, these are adults that can make their own (bad) decisions. If this pertains certain people that require special help (dementia and all that) ok sure i can get that. But never a blanket ban
Bombofclusterfucks
When i was a cna, a lot of our dementia residents would get a PRN nonalcoholic beer that would have to be, funnily enough, prescribed by their Dr. Many of the residents would get drinks when out w/ their families & we would have to call the oncall rn to ask if any meds should be held. That being said i still had to call in the nonemergency ambulance a couple of times due to the alcohol suppressing breathing causing O2 numbers to drop. So I can understand both sides of this argument.
horsetuna
It's possibly a liability for the caretakers though. Ie, cannot serve them alcohol or assist with meds knowing they conflict.
TheFontSnob
The concept of trying to tell people over 70 they can't have booze is unfathomable.
JackDawesLovesmybigwhat
I don't think it was an intentional ban. Nursing homes didn't fit the category of business that coud get a liquor license. It's fixed now
Pandameter
They could always get livensed, they wouldn’t because it’s expensive and time consuming. This law means they can serve without a license, at special events, after notifying the state. It’s all in the article
JackDawesLovesmybigwhat
Thanks, I read an article on it a while back. I'm sure I only remembered like 60% of it.
SirPerfluousOfTheShire
They want them to live to old age\s
MissDeeMeanor
She marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, she deserves all the booze she wa
Samerious
Oh no the caretakers got them.
DeakVanNyke
i bet the nursing home would be more than happy to sell them some highly overpriced booze, but alchohol + prescription drugs + old livers dont go well together..
Bombofclusterfucks
As if being a cna wasn't hard enough already. They'll be pulling a combo of wiping ass while also cleaning up puke. Because you already know, that alcohol and med combo will definitely fuck up their stomachs. 😅 it makes me not miss being a cna just thinking about it
rudejohn
Don't generalize. My mom is 78 and can out-drink most 20/30/40-somethings (including myself) when she is in the mood to party.
DeakVanNyke
Knifesmith
I used to live near what was a gated retirement community incorporated into their own town, and every place near the gates out (CVS, grocery stores, etc...) had MASSIVE liquor areas. I was buying bandaids and pepto once, and a granny in the parking lot was loading boxes of fairly high proof liquors into her pirate themed golf cart.
It was like that every time too. I'm there getting gummy worms, and my kid was getting nail polish, and the old person in front of me is buying like a case of wine
datphone777365
Can confirm old people storage facilities are rife with boozers and stds. Yalls grammies and pappies out there slushed up and pustuled, ya nasties.
trigonman3
They're there for a good time AND a long time
datphone777365
Not with if the stds and hardening of the liver have anything to say!
Txernobog
Good for them.
Wanting to have fun (and having it) has not expiration date.
datphone777365
The stds cut that fun short. But hey that might be the plan!
tinydog
The Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right" [To Party] was recorded 40 years ago, so this lady would have been in her ~30s.
Iplaybadguys
eromitlab
BenjyX55
YOU WAKE UP LATE FOR SCHOOL AND YOU DON'T WANNA GO
Iinajoki360
I'm in my 30s and I hate new music with most of my being. Why is it the same fucking song over and over?
swedishfika
I'm in my 60s. It was the same fucking song when I was in my 30s.
Leonon
The music industry is, like every other industry, an industry. Its goal is to attain the greatest profit with the lowest cost. Larger companies/bands tend towards a more generalist product that's "good enough, but not great" for a wide audience. Smaller companies/bands tend to specialize in a specific niche and not be able to diversify without alienating their existing customers.
Zetor
You have to wait 20 years. Then the garbage has been forgotten.
Smashaga
It’s almost like they are adult humans.
TripleDane
Does booze cover all alcohol? My grand mar is in a nursing home (over seas) and she has whine in her living room hallway
yamsonyamsonyams
When my grandparetns moved into assisted living theh bought lkke a dozen fresh bottles of all kinds with them and crushed jt all in a month or two
If I live thar long Im definitely picking the booze back up
Frankasti
Reading the article helps a lot. It's clickbaity.
Nobody ever stopped them to buy and drink alcohol. It was about the nursing home serving alcoholic drinks to residents without an alcohol permit. They wanted to celebrate renovations with a Champagne drink but found they legally couldn't give alcohol to residents. That's the part that changed.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
Let's not get crazy.
HulaJesus
They are! How ever i can see a booze ban because a bunch of meds do not mix well with alcohol and its easier to say hey this whole place is alcohol free than no jan you can not have booze cause your meds dont mix with them. I can also see them just shuffling down to have wine with Linda because shes allowed to drink so Jan just gonna have 1.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Your ‘religion’ does not get to dictate how *I* live.
If you want to be dry, fill your boots. But if I want to drink and I’m past the legal age, I will if I want. I’m a grownup and that means I get to make my own decisions. If I’m a dumbass and drink while it interferes with my meds, or have liver failure, it’s on me. It’s part of FAFO, the school of hard knocks.
RyvaTheRenamon
I'm gonna be real but at that age I don't think they care about the possible effects of drinking and their meds.
GroteB
Holy run-on sentence full of mistakes, Batman!
Smashaga
Thought exercise: Why do we only do this to one group of adults but not the rest? New adults have notoriously bad decision making around alcohol, should they be banned? Should anyone who is stressed be prohibited?
HulaJesus
Excellent question. I suppose it boils down to living arrangements. If they are in group homes or business that provide care giving possibly and then when and who determines the rules.
Smashaga
For adults? So the business gets to decide their rights? You are saying they aren’t human.
IgnisInvictus
Yeah, no.
Jan SHOULDN'T drink on her meds but like a freaking adult she's allowed to make the choice to drink on her meds.
Seriously, unless a Durable Power of Health Attorney is now in effect or someone has Guardianship, an adult individual has the right to decide to drink even if they shouldn't for health / med reasons.
HulaJesus
Sure as long as your of sound mind and and adult you should be free to make your own choices no matter how poor they are. I can see them doing it for insurance reasons or a show a safety record for investors or some reason that makes good business sounding phrases even if they are stupid. Elder care is a complicated thing for me. They are adults and they do need help with somethings. I dont know enough to be able to say when they need to have choices made for their benefit.
pekkhum
If there are conditions under which certain adults should not drink, any restriction should be applied to those who meet those critera, not every member of a class that they resemble.
Or should all adults be banned from drinking because some have medical reasons, some are recovering alcoholics, some need to drive, and others work in sensitive roles?
Impinging on all people's rights, because some should not partake is just control for the sake of control.
IgnisInvictus
2/2 a person is a danger to themselves or others. And there's gotta be documented clear proof of that. Guardianship basically takes away all rights of an adult, your rights are basically the same as that of a child. With the exception that if your guardian spends your money on anything other than your care and upkeep they can go to jail.
IgnisInvictus
When Durable Power of Health Attorney or Guardianship is in effect. With Guardianship you make the best choices for them, with Power of Health Attorney you make the choices regarding their health that they would make if they were still capable of participating in their own medical decisions, regardless of weather or not you believe it's in their best health interests.
Basically, when a doctor determines they are not capable of participating in their own health choices or a judge decides that