The Psychology of Long Term Care

People still died from AIDS at a quite alarming rate. The various combinations of therapies hadn't been figured out yet. And so by the time people came to stay with us, they were all really hospice patients. This is when it was at its peak. I worked there for a little over a year and we had in the first year, those six beds of people, we took care of 97 people who died in that first year. In a year, you had 97 people die. So close to two patients a week, close to two people a week in a six bed facility. And then you've got the other people in those other beds seeing that rate. Yeah.