Cost Of Nursing Home Essay

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The cost of nursing homes have went up immensely the last years. A few years back many of the elderly could afford the care, but because the cost has continuously went up it has resulted that those people can no longer afford the care. It is not hard to pay for the care that one needs while they are younger and have an income to support themselves, but as they age, it becomes more difficult to meet basic care costs. That results in them not having the money they need, besides medicare/medicaid and their retirement. Even that is not enough to pay for their homing, medications, cloths, and the rest of their necessities that they need to stay healthy. Of course nursing homes are a wonderful place to go when somebody becomes elderly and can no …show more content…

When a person has to pay for all of their personal care plus the nursing home care, it leaves that person in a tough situation. Having so much to pay for with not having enough money to afford it can lead to the resident getting more stressed and result in becoming upset.
This problem is affecting more people than others think. It affects the elderly generation because as the time goes on the prices of nursing homes will keep rising and they will eventually become unaffordable to the elderly. Which will lead to the elderly not getting put in a nursing home and receiving the care that he or she needs. This could lead to bigger problems in that one 's health and be something that could have been dealt with if he or she was in the nursing home. This also affects the family of the elderly. If the elderly can not afford his or her care than the family may have to pay for it out of their own funds which could leave them with little or no money left for their own needs. Or if their families can not afford to pay for the elderly care then they will have to go without getting care until someone can afford it. Not many of the elderly can afford