[speaker001:] hi
[speaker002:] I'm Bridget  hi Bridget I'm Gunner I'm here in Dallas
[speaker001:] are you I'm in Lubbock
[speaker002:] oh you are oh okay
[speaker001:] yeah I go to school at Tech
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] okay you ready for me to push one
[speaker002:] yeah sure am
[speaker001:] okay  okay
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] so what do you think about the elderly and their health care
[speaker002:] well uh I think there uh you know need to have uh some some means of taking care of them in a in a reasonable and uh uh I guess respectful way
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh it's uh I guess my biggest problem is that uh they seem to uh be uh be you know put in nursing homes and just forgotten about that's
[speaker001:] yeah I think that's really sad
[speaker002:] you know have you uh ever spent much time or worked around one or anything
[speaker001:] yeah I have um my great grandmother was in one and I used to go visit her a lot I think it's sad because one it's so expensive
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] just to put them in there and it's such a traumatic decision anyway and then it's like no one goes and sees them I think that's really sad I mean that I didn't even think about that what I first was thinking about this topic and stuff and that's just that's that's amazes me you know
[speaker002:] is there uh uh well shoot I guess there's no uh Medicare I don't think pays for it
[speaker001:] no I don't think so
[speaker002:] um um I don't know it's just the whole thing is just kind of amazing to me
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] but they need someone to take care of them you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you can kind of see both sides I mean the people that have to be in one you know should be or people that are just put in one you know that do not need serious you know medical care I think that's kind of sad
[speaker002:] yeah and a lot of other countries though uh uh you know basically like family takes them
[speaker001:] yeah that's uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I guess take them for as long as they are you know as long as they live
[speaker001:] yeah yeah should go back to that think more people should do that
[speaker002:] well I yeah I do too
[speaker001:] hard as it may sound or be for some people it's not really that hard
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] least it would be easier
[speaker002:] especially now that all the you know everybody is getting older and living longer and
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's true
[speaker002:] uh you know it's it's there's going to be more and more folks
[speaker001:] yeah there's going to be more older people
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] whether they like to admit it or not
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] that's true though I didn't think about that either people got to think about that and just I just think it's it's kind of sad even knowing if your you know if your parents would even want to go in one or not you know I mean my parents are like no way I know there's no way they would ever want to be put in one
[speaker002:] um yeah
[speaker001:] and I know that my parents plan to take care of their parents you know if it ever gets to the point where they can't take care of themselves you know they're going to go to Florida or whatever to take care of them that's what they have to do because they don't want to just put them in a nursing home
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] they don't think that's right
[speaker002:] um yeah that is uh that's difficult I tell you
[speaker001:] I guess it would depend on a lot of things like like financial especially and depending on how old they are and how you know I can see if like my grandmother whose mother used to be in a nursing home she used to go up there and see her every day whose my great-grandmother was in one she used to go see her every day and that is great but when she got sick then you know she can't go see her and stuff and you can't expect so I guess it would depend on how old they were too
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] because if if the parents if the children were too old to take care of the parents then I don't think that would be very good either
[speaker002:] yeah yeah hm
[speaker001:] pretty touchy topic
[speaker002:] yeah it sure is I know like uh uh lot of places it's like hundred dollars a day
[speaker001:] oh yeah at least
[speaker002:] you know
[speaker001:] they're pretty expensive
[speaker002:] I know but uh
[speaker001:] but people always figure it as if they had a live in nurse too that's you know just as expensive
[speaker002:] is it I don't even know
[speaker001:] it is because I know when my grandmother was looking to put her mother in that is a big ordeal she's like well it's just expensive to have a nurse twenty four hours a day than it is to put her in a a place where at least there's other people you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I mean and she went and saw her every day like I said and that's good I think because I don't think if you just put them in there and forget about them I don't think that's right
[speaker002:] yeah yeah really
[speaker001:] think that's sad