Reply #11: When a friend of mine moved into assisted living

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3 or 4 years ago (Sunrise Assisted Living), she was in a regular wheelchair without a motor. She was unable to push herself around in it beyond moving around her new apartment. When I visited her a couple of days after the move, she told me she hadn't eaten since moving in.

They wanted her to pay an attendant $3 one way to push her to the dining hall! And she didn't have the money, so she didn't get to eat. In other words she would have to pay $6 to be pushed to every meal. What an outrage!

My friend was too meek and too ill to make a complaint, but I called our minister, who straightened out the management immediately. I went out and got food. A few days later my friend got a motorized wheelchair, possibly through medicare or some charity.