A story from wyborcza on the not so nice practice of dumping older family members (whose company is not wanted) at the hospital for the holidays.
Families can even on the eve just before dinner to bring the old man to the hospital and leave with nothing
- Christmas Grandma , Grandpa Christmas , so we call them . The day before Christmas Eve the whole branch of them filled - doc says . Andrzej Madej , chief of internal medicine at the Hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers in Katowice.
From year to year the elderly thrown in for safekeeping to the hospital is more . - Sometimes people are ashamed that as the holidays come to their house guests, they found him bedridden sick elderly person . But mostly older people trying to cram in the hospital , those who for the holidays and want to go somewhere where they do not have to leave - says Magdalena Sękowska , ward nurse Wolski Hospital in Warsaw.
Asked a friend who worked in a hospital and they say this is not new at all. Does that make it a tradition?
Selective summary:
Hospitals are used to this and call unwanted family members "holiday grampa" and "holiday babcia".
One technique is to invent symptoms ("He's feeling faint!") and calling an ambulans to take them to the hospital for tests which show that nothing's wrong. But the oldster has no keys of their own and the family doesn't answer the phone until after the holidays are safely over.
Another reason for granny dumping is to free up a caregiver's time so they can properly prepare for the holidays with the A-list family members.
Saddest part is the unwanted granparent usually tries to be understanding about it...
Families can even on the eve just before dinner to bring the old man to the hospital and leave with nothing
- Christmas Grandma , Grandpa Christmas , so we call them . The day before Christmas Eve the whole branch of them filled - doc says . Andrzej Madej , chief of internal medicine at the Hospital of the Brothers Hospitallers in Katowice.
From year to year the elderly thrown in for safekeeping to the hospital is more . - Sometimes people are ashamed that as the holidays come to their house guests, they found him bedridden sick elderly person . But mostly older people trying to cram in the hospital , those who for the holidays and want to go somewhere where they do not have to leave - says Magdalena Sękowska , ward nurse Wolski Hospital in Warsaw.
Asked a friend who worked in a hospital and they say this is not new at all. Does that make it a tradition?
Selective summary:
Hospitals are used to this and call unwanted family members "holiday grampa" and "holiday babcia".
One technique is to invent symptoms ("He's feeling faint!") and calling an ambulans to take them to the hospital for tests which show that nothing's wrong. But the oldster has no keys of their own and the family doesn't answer the phone until after the holidays are safely over.
Another reason for granny dumping is to free up a caregiver's time so they can properly prepare for the holidays with the A-list family members.
Saddest part is the unwanted granparent usually tries to be understanding about it...