The young disabled in nursing homes

This article was featured on Yahoo's homepage this morning. The major thing I don't like about the article is that it makes it sound as if PWDs under 65 living in nursing homes is a new phenomenon. What is true, though, is that it is a growing problem thanks to short-sighted, unempathetic, non-disabled politicians cutting funds to home health services in order to keep their ridiculously large paychecks intact. I'd love to challenge these fine individuals (she said sarcastically) to live in a rehabilitation facility -- nee nursing home -- for a month, relying completely on sometimes apathetic workers for every single need, even to give you one of your own cigarettes on a smoking schedule they determine. I don't think they'd make it two weeks.

What Adam Martin says at the end of the article is true: "It makes you feel old. If that's all you're around, that's what you become."