The say that you cannot make regulations on morality and if you do they will end up hurting all the decent people, and so, when looking at the elder care facilities and all the people that work in senior care assisted living facilities or old folks homes it appears there are some problems brewing. How so you ask?

Well, there have been TV shows like 60-minutes which have shown elder abuse in such facilities, and this has really shaken the core of those with parents in such homes. Unfortunately, whereas this is absolutely inexcusable, elder abuse certainly does not occur in all such senior care establishments. But because the public is now concerned and to prevent abuse, increase regulations on the industry have been placed, supposedly to prevent these horrific activities and abuse.

Now background checks are done, which is a wise thing, but also lots of on-going education to teach people ethics and all the new common sense regulations. Of course, if someone is going to abuse someone else, especially a senior citizen, then they are going to do it when no one is looking and it is the people involved who are criminals. So, there isn’t much you can do to stop such criminality.

What is happening now is that we have laws in placed to prosecute people and regulations in place to make all facilities follow rather structured guidelines, but in doing all this all we’ve really done is add a layer of bureaucracy and created more lawsuits over rules, and thus, raised the cost of care, which is already far too high. Please consider all this.