The Old Folks Home 'De-Humanizer'

As we grow older and older parts of us as humans start to deteriorate. For example we may start forgetting simple things like the names of family member. Our hair turns gray we have a harder time hearing, a difficult time seeing, getting around and even doing the things which used to be easy in our daily lives. We’re stripped of basically everything we used to be before and suddenly society doesn’t see us the same anymore. Even our families don’t and when they finally decide that maybe it’s a better idea to just put elders in a old folks home because that specific elder can’t take care of themselves properly anymore. Honestly this seems like an excuse to me because that family could just as easily take that family member into their own hands and take care of them themselves. In the past there was no such thing as old folks homes and elders were indeed taken care of by their younger family member, but we as nation even world wide have strayed from that way of life. It’s easier to just let someone else take care of them that way we no longer have to worry. It is definitely most likely not a very easy transition for that elder they went from being able to control every aspect of their life to having absolutely no control which is wrong. They are in fact human beings just like the rest of us and should be able to experience personal rights such as freedom to choose their way of life. Elders across the United States are forces into old folks homes by their family it is wrong for them to be sent there it strips personal choice and de-humanizes them there should be an alternative.

To begin now matter how old we are as human beings we should all have personal choices and old folks homes strip those elders of any personal choice. These ...

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...ould be like an elderly paradise!

In conclusion, the choice of sending elders to an old folk’s home is just wrong. It’s unfair to them to begin with and most of the time it’s not even their personal choice. Stripped of every single personal choice they’ve had before and everything they’ve worked for all their life is now gone from them. The normal life is over and they are forced to spend the rest of their life in the nasty, smelly old folk’s home. Instead of these and all that’s wrong with them my two alternatives would be a very nice choice and it would be much nicer to them much more respectful. And they would actually be able to enjoy their time as elderly people. So to end this essay I would like to bring this question into your mind how would you feel if everything you have in this very moment was taken away from you for the rest of your life. The end.