I'm not going to go into another rant because as I've long since discovered, it is pointless, everyone has already made their mind up and they aren't listening anymore but I am going to say that my family has owned a nursing home for the really severe end of the EMI bracket for 20 years now. Our prime concern is the dignity and quality of life for residents. We do not stick them on tranks, in fact a lot of time is taken weaning them off the tranks that whatever hospital they were in has stuck them on, they are taken on day trips, encouraged to keep their hobbies and interests going, their likes and dislikes in terms of food and surroundings are catered for, we ensure that if they are coming from home their personal belongings and trinkets are brought as well so that their room feels as much like home as possible. Not every nursing home is a shit strewn heap, feeding grandma on minced cardboard and locking her ina cupboard and not every nursing home owner is a money hungry arsehole looking for a fast buck. My father, who set up the home and still runs it himself is a trained psychiatric nurse who spent years working as a CPN, he knows what he's doing and more inportantly, he cares. Also, anyone who tells you that a nursing home is an easy way to make loads of money is talking rot. We've been close to bankrupcy a number of times and at one point the family had to move into the sleeping in room at the home because we couldn't afford the utility bills on the family home because the nursing home wasn't paying my dad. He used to work 90 hour weeks because the home couldn't afford to pay another nurse and he would work for free. We had to have christmas day at the nursing home and our christmas lunch with the residents because no other nurse would work it for normal pay. We saw my dad about once a week and he was usually too knackered to play or talk. Yes, there are people out there who are in it for the money but I'm fed up of the world thinking every home is like that because it's not, ours isn't. Some homes care and it's about time the media stopped banging the 'all homes are shit' drum and acknowledged this. I lied, I did rant again!