You'll end up in a care home if you don't obey!

 You'll end up in a care home if you don't obey!

This is reality
A resident in a nursing home in Bremen/Germany, is severely abused by staff, and politicians, amazingly, politicians are shocked. Wow, how can something like this happen?

I'm not providing a link here because I'm claiming this case is no exception and occurs multiple times daily in Germany.

But even the standard accommodation in these nursing homes, as they are affectionately called, is abuse enough. It's similar to nuclear power. Nuclear energy sounds less dangerous. So is a nursing home. Just a home for the elderly. But everyone knows clearly that it's over if I end up there.

The abuse doesn't have to be explicitly carried out personally by the nursing staff. The very fact of the existence of this institution is an abuse from the start. Most people still live with the illusion that when they're old, they'll go to a nursing home and be well cared for.

But reality quickly catches up with you there. Nursing homes are generally not places throughout Germany where you can spend your twilight years in dignity and with reasonable care. I'd rather call them, more neutrally, detention centres.

The question is, what's the alternative?