[TMRA] Nursing Home or Not ???

[Steve Bellner]

Subject: Nursing Home or Not ???



  

    
  
  
             The Bathtub Test 

        

        During  a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine

         whether  or not an older person should be put in an old age 
        home?"
    

          "Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we  offer a
        teaspoon, a teacup

         and a bucket to the person to empty the  bathtub."

        

         "Oh,  I understand," I said. "A normal person would use
        the bucket  because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
      
     "No,"  he said. "A normal
        person would pull the plug. Do you want a  bed near the window?"