25-01-2025, 09:03 AM
It is a few women with authority who seem to have this unacknowledged misogyny, maybe their position lets them look down upon their sisters, I don't know. It is a very unattractive quality though...
I need your thoughts on another local thing. One of our oldies has serious mental health issues and refuses both the suggestion of rest home care, or to let paid carers maintain regular visits. She has emptied her unit, doesn't make meals, or look after herself and is slowly fading away. We worry about her. Efforts to get the management involved have been unsuccessful over the years until recently when a few of us got a bit definite. This week I found out they have disconnected her stove because she cannot be trusted and they are worried about fires.
Property law says a rental property must have cooking facilities, the ability to boil and bake, and suggests an oven and cooktop. This tenant has a brand new toaster and a microwave - which she doesn't know how to use, in her kitchen, I think provided by management - who are also now, following our fuss - providing basic groceries and physically checking on her every couple of days, which is a really good thing and we are grateful. But the fact is she should be in fulltime care for her own safety, health, and well being - and for ours - but everything possible it seems is being done to avoid getting that done, by those with the power and the responsibility (if that actually exists)...
Should we keep pushing or should we shut up and let nature take its course?
I need your thoughts on another local thing. One of our oldies has serious mental health issues and refuses both the suggestion of rest home care, or to let paid carers maintain regular visits. She has emptied her unit, doesn't make meals, or look after herself and is slowly fading away. We worry about her. Efforts to get the management involved have been unsuccessful over the years until recently when a few of us got a bit definite. This week I found out they have disconnected her stove because she cannot be trusted and they are worried about fires.
Property law says a rental property must have cooking facilities, the ability to boil and bake, and suggests an oven and cooktop. This tenant has a brand new toaster and a microwave - which she doesn't know how to use, in her kitchen, I think provided by management - who are also now, following our fuss - providing basic groceries and physically checking on her every couple of days, which is a really good thing and we are grateful. But the fact is she should be in fulltime care for her own safety, health, and well being - and for ours - but everything possible it seems is being done to avoid getting that done, by those with the power and the responsibility (if that actually exists)...
Should we keep pushing or should we shut up and let nature take its course?