Five-star pricing to be left alone and helpless with sex offenders. I felt disgrace and disgust when I read the article “Hidden danger: Registered sex offenders often go undetected in care homes” (Dec. 30, TribLIVE). The audacity of not telling families that you are harboring sex offenders. The words “every bed is a buck” disgust me. And then when approached, owners make no comment?
The trauma to a caregiver when you have to decide to let a loved one go to a nursing home is overwhelming. Then there’s covid, and you’re stuck standing outside looking in from afar. How can social services refer these places without full disclosure? Is it OK that an offender has to register when living in your neighborhood, but not when they could potentially endanger your helpless loved one?
We need legislation for full disclosure from these homes to protect our loved ones when they are unable to protect themselves. It’s time we wake up and start scrutinizing the nursing home industry.
Cheryl Koloshinsky
Latrobe