Comments on: Achy Breaky Heart

By: Crissa

Crissa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:18:28 +0000

Yes, elderly single people are more likely to go into a nursing home at some point.

Why is this so strange? How many elderly widowers ended up in nursing homes? I’ bet about the same number.

Sure, my step-grandmother (widowed) and my spouse’s nana (great grandmother, widowed) ended up in nursing homes before they died…

…twenty and forty years after being widowed, respectively.

But so did my other two grandfathers (although one is now deceased and the other has recovered and is living with family).

Nursing homes are, you know, where there’s more care available. Not everyone has someone home all day, or extensive medical training to take care of someone in need of special care.

Oy. That’s why we have nursing homes, and you know, money. So we can trade for things we don’t have. Like specialized care for people in need!

By: Harry Tuttle

Harry Tuttle — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:09:12 +0000

Single women, elderly or not, have husbands to lose to heart disease in the first place?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:59:26 +0000

It’s a “retirement community”!!
Nice one, legalize.

Shorter Roberts: Old people (not me) should just die already.

By: The Return of The Attack of Arky Cthulhusexual

The Return of The Attack of Arky Cthulhusexual — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:49:51 +0000

Btw, Carey suggests the AHA favours women. A simple search on “men” on the AHA site reveals dozens of research articles about male heart health.

Lesley, in WingerWurld(TM) acknowledging the existence of any species besides Homo Heterosexualis Caucasoid is favoritism.

Remember, The White Male is the Bitch of Liberal Pimpsterism.

By: Phil Moskowitz, Lovable Rogue

Phil Moskowitz, Lovable Rogue — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:48:13 +0000

(Roberts) was a professor of psychology-

Who knew Clown College offers a psych major?

By: conumbdrum

conumbdrum — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:49:35 +0000

You guys need to start doing a regular Two-Minute RenewAmerica post on this site, ferchrissakes… just to keep us peons up to speed with Alan Keyes and his Posse of Dingbats. It’s like Townhall.com refracted through the Weekly World News, then clobbered on the head with a pick handle.

Hmmm… wonder if Keyes tried to recruit Ed Anger for RenewAmerica’s Chucklehead Guild after the WWN shut down their presses?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:42:15 +0000

Tehanu, if Carey’s mom is still alive she must be one old codger. Have you seen Carey? He looks to be about 90.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:29:07 +0000

I visualize Carey’s elderly mom in a nursing home right now, sucking up ALL his money — or a percentage, say, 10%, that prevents him from buying that new Hummer he’s got his heart set on — and running constant guilt trips on him to boot. At least, that would explain his resentment at the idea that elderly women should be allowed to survive when all he has to look forward to is dropping dead of a heart attack five years before all the women his own age.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:07:50 +0000

Btw, Carey suggests the AHA favours women. A simple search on “men” on the AHA site reveals dozens of research articles about male heart health.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:06:37 +0000

In my family, both sides, the men outlive the women. We like ‘em young!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:01:07 +0000

oh, my mistake. I’d assumed “Carey” was female.

His middle name wouldn’t be Dotty, would it?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:59:41 +0000

It’s true that women tend to outlive men (it’s a conspiracy!) but what has this got to do with nursing homes? Nothing, since both men and women, and couples are housed by nursing homes. To the best of my knowledge, nursing homes will take anyone as long as they can pay and meet the criteria for residency, which doesn’t include having to be female.

Her middle name wouldn’t be Dotty, would it?

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:52:51 +0000

Jim, Carey’s a sad, shriveled up old man, not a woman. Hell, he probably doesn’t even know any women. Maybe that explains his crotchetiness, 80+ years of blue balls? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

By: Legalize

Legalize — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:57:43 +0000

It’s a “retirement community”!!

By: jim

jim — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:24:55 +0000

How many time can my head explode?

It so burns this woman’s britches that someone’s trying to good for people who haven’t proved they’ve deserved it in some wingnut-blessed form – that she finds a way to make this *bad*?

And then!

It’s bad enough that she’s just automatically assuming women can’t pay their own bills…but then, she takes the further leap off the edge of the previously conceivable, by saying longer lives are bad because living longer is harder than living shorter?

Woo.

By: EnfantTerrible

EnfantTerrible — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:17:47 +0000

I think we should start collecting for the National Anal Cranial Insertion Fund to help unfortunates like Carey Roberts.

OK, but what color do we wear on their special day?

Brown’s not my color, man.

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:11:20 +0000

Soylent Red is made out of Republicans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:10:20 +0000

Obviously the AHA has a multi-level effort going on here, addressing men, women, young and old. (Which Roberts seems to be blissfully clueless of.)

That’s it! The Republican Party’s campaign slogan for 2008!

Mitt Romney: Blissfully Clueless

John McCain: Blissfully Clueless

Mike Huckabee: Blissfully Clueless

Just fit the motto to the most appropriate candidate, and the Repug voters will flock to those voting booths.

(After seeing the Mitt Romney music video where he “sings” Who let the dogs out, I think he’s a shoe-in. Admittedly, they all have their moments.)

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:47:10 +0000

…single elderly women are four times more likely to end up in a nursing home.

Um… four times more likely than whom? Married elderly women? Single young women? Single elderly men? THIS IS A MEANINGLESS “STATISTIC.”

Carry on.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:37:34 +0000

~~~she’s giving the children her money, in the hopes she can get Medicaid to help kick in ~~~

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She should be very careful about this:

“States can “look back” to find transfers of assets for 36 months prior to the date the individual is institutionalized or, if later, the date he or she applies for Medicaid. For certain trusts, this look-back period extends to 60 months.

If a transfer of assets for less than fair market value is found, the State must withhold payment for nursing facility care (and certain other long-term care services) for a period of time referred to as the penalty period.”

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidEligibility/10_TransferofAssets.asp