How should you act if you go and visit a retirement home? Should you give the old people prunes?
Monday, September 6th, 2010 at
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You should treat the residence of the home, or any person, as you would your parents or grandparents…with dignity and respect.
How should you act?
Go in wearing a clown suit and dancing around
and should you bring prunes?
Not a good idea unless you plan on loading everyone up in a truck and taking them to the car wash.
Give them chocolates, pies, pizzas and anything rich. They won’t care about their figures anyways.
They will give you prunes for that question.
If that was meant as humor is was a tad ‘sick’. Visiting in nursing homes should be done with respect and caring. As to giving them prunes, most elderly persons have dietary problems and shouldn’t be given anything without permission from the staff. Since prunes are used as laxatives I sure the staff would not appreciate your gesture. And if you want to think of me as someone without a sense of humor, go ahead.
That is awful. Do you think the second someone is old they aren’t people any more? Just mind your manners like you would normally(hopefully) do with everyone else.
There are lonely and also abused people in retirement homes. You should feel bad even thinking or trying to be funny at their expense. Those people need love, respect, and the gift of a smile or friendly Hello. No matter where people are or how old they are they have feelings and probably get them hurt more than you know. Please be respectful.
offer to empty the bad pans. A little humilty might help you.
you should give them a smile and be respectful
lol yeah
I hope this will not come back to haunt you in a couple of decades. Say you are sorry, and say a prayer…
grow up.
You will regret your statement.
When you are placed in a home when no one longer cares for you .I`ll bring you prunes and ex-lax ,just to get even with your asinine statement.
Act "normal" and just be yourself. ; )
Prunes to old people? Only if they like them and are allowed to eat them. No one should give anything to anyone in a retirement home unless they have permission to do so.
Prunes are acceptable. Make fun of the elderly all you can now, write down any funny thing you can think of concerning the elderly and save them. When your mother or father ends up in a nursing home, take them out and read them. Well, you won’t have to read them, I guarantee you will remember!
I think that you should only have respect and compassion for the ederly,remember the day will come and we will be them.
WOWWWWWWWWWW, was that question STUPID! ….Treat all older people with respect.
Act as if you were in their own homes, with respect, bring them something cheerful, and bright. Bring lots of laughter to them, they feel sorry enough for themselves. Bring them something that they cannot get in the retirement home. Prunes are probably supplied 2-3 times per week any way. Try bringing in a tray of strawberries (care with these as some folk may be allergic), grapes, oranges, watermelon (is very popular), pears, apples, etc… you can’t go wrong with food. All the best.
Why would you go visit a retirement home? They are retired cause they are sick of your crap!!! Or that’s what they’ll say if you go there, so don’t go.
act like you alway do. don’t change you energy because people feel that. treat them like any one else. you can give them prunes if their not on a puree diet but not to much because it makes your bowels move. I am a CNA I work in a nursing home and care for the elderly everyday..