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Originally posted by russotto
Nothing strange about it, when you realize "nursing home" is a euphemism for "prison for old people".

The stated focus of prisons is to "rehabilitate" criminals and return them to society. (yeah, I know that this ain't the case. I deal with the prison population a lot. Can you say "high recidividism rate"? Good... knew you could).

I also deal a lot with nursing homes. It is more appropriate, IMHO, to use this as a euphemism for "warehouse where we put old people until they die."

As an aside ... there is an 'elder care' facility near my house. Their sign out front describes their specialty: "Assisted Living for the Memory Impaired."

That just struck me as funny. It becomes funnier when you know that they put anklets on their clients that function like those anti-shoplifting tags on the expensive clothes in the shops in the mall. Resident tries to elope through a doorway ... alarms go off and they round him/her up.