A little honesty please!
I already know that what I’d like to see won’t happen, so perhaps this is merely a vent. Saw a commercial this morning for a financial planning company where a couple was depicted visiting their financial planning pros over the years, saving for goals such as a house, college for their children, trips, and finally the big goal, adding on to the house so grandma could move in. And here comes grandma, she comes to the door, fully made up, not one wrinkle, beautifully dressed, comes in and immediately starts engaging with her grandchildren. The daughter smiles and says “welcome home, mom” All I could think was, where is grandmas rollator, why doesn’t grandma have even one wrinkle, is there going to be a Depends leak, is grandma sure she knows who those grandchildren are, is grandma fighting this move and leaving her home, can grandma hide her stroke damage that well?????????? Life certainly colors your outlook doesn’t it?! I could write and direct a far more honest ad, but then no one would do business with that financial planner if they saw that possible outcome! Okay, I feel better now 😜
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I think they’re sell more drugs if they showed the real thing. Changing depends, taking the car away, dragging mom into memory care.....Scare people to death. SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DONT BUY THIS CRAP?!
As I've written before, older people and their care have been commoditized, just as our personal information has been.
Truth in advertising is I think merely an ideal, neither a goal or reality. Money drives the ads and governs the "care".
On the positive side, it's good that society is starting to acknowledge elder care as an issue affecting more and more families. On the negative side, these are commercial ads, aimed at people who have money, which is too often not the case. My nominee for most offensive are the pious ads for home-care services "Because we promised Dad we'd keep Mom at home." Yeah, everyone would promise that if Dad left enough money to pay for Mom's care round the clock. I fear that ads like that reinforce the idea that it's okay to extract those promises from adult kids, even when there are no funds to pay for care. Ticks me off every time I hear that!
I remember one commercial where Grandma moved in, I think she was wearing either a golfing outfit or tennis garb. I was waiting for her to go to her new vehicle and pull out a set of golf clubs or tennis rackets. To make it more real, the grown son or daughter should be lifting out of the trunk of the 1983 Mercury Grand Marquis, Mom walker.
Sometimes these things are so utterly detached from reality you have to wonder if the makers of the ad. are a) twelve years old or b) taking the mickey. It's got to be one or the other.
There is “reality tv”, but this for sure ain’t it.
Nothing is said that the "loan" needs to be paid back. I believe some homeowners believe since it is equity in their house, it's free to claim it.... [sigh]
But, realistically, glorified inference of much better and higher levels of literally anything is part of advertising these days.
Whether it's being transformed into a beauty through application of chemicals on one's face, or getting buff through some new so-called exercise regimen, or having your lifestyle transformed by a several thousand dollar vehicle that's basically a means of transport, or bopping around as if on a sugar high after taking some diabetic drug....the game's the same.....change your life through products, not through personal introspection, health, exercise, or your own efforts. You need to buy these products and spend money in order to be happy.
I can see that the "back to the land", "roughing it", and other so-called off the grid lifestyles could easily have their routes in a counterculture opposed to the fictitious and misleading advertising.
If an elder is truly that strapped, it’s better to have pernicious unsecured debt than a lifelong lien on one’s home.
Jeez, “financial security” by way of living your final years under the threat of homelessness. While the income makes the [effectively] broke elder ineligible for Medicaid.
And the POA/executor gets to spend one of the most stressful stints of his/her life navigating the cruel matrix of payback-or-repossess.
What a world we live in. 🤬
When I see this commercial, I can't help wondering what the fictional son or daughter of this poor old fictional man is thinking. Really?!? You want your COPD dad huffing and puffing and practically keeling over in front of grandkid? And then having to explain COPD and wonderful new drug for it to grandchild... Right.... Bring out the little red riding hood puppets, the chicken little puppets, anything else... Sheesh....
Then they show Mom sitting at a table all smiles with her home companion.
Not in my life. One of my brothers would have been sizing up how to cash in on Mom's money. The other one would have been in total denial and left for a business trip to avoid being involved. And when the home companion showed up Mom would have bit her head off and said I was mistreating her by bringing a stranger into her house.
These commercials are so phony.
My poor mom would see the dementia wonder drug ads, then call me asking if we can get dad on that stuff. Keep in mind, at this point my dad didn’t know if it was xmas or garbage day. Used to break my heart to have to explain to her the drugs wouldn’t help.
We laugh about it here but big pharma and Madison Avenue are some purely evil entities.
or Mom wanted to fire one of her daughters thinking that daughter is one of the Staff... and thinking her grown son is her husband. Then one time out on a trip with the caregiver and she getting lost. Now she is claiming her grown son wasn't her husband's child but that of an affair.
I guess it would be sad if it really happened but you have to laugh at these things some times.
Then big pharma will follow with special med ads, then some health care provider will address specific physical issues, possibly resulting in some injury or "condition", then big pharma will come back with another drug specifically targeted for acrobatic, amorous seniors to learn how to be as flexible as Shen Yun performers, then of course we'll all need to have specific outfits to engage in more acrobatic sex....and by that time we'll have forgotten what bathtubs were originally for.
"How very dare you!" [slap]
Gershun. I have an Acorn stair lift and it is a life saver.
It actually runs on batteries that are constantly recharged so if the power goes out you can still finish your trip.
Of course in Canada maybe batteries are banned!!!!!!!!!
I typed coal mine not calming
The other day every time I finished a sentence it put in poop poop poop