Nobody wants to look at their future in a nursing home. It's better to be worried about the lottery or whatever the hot button is at the moment. We're a day away from that. It is a business he hoped to one day pass on to his son. Rather than plan for his retirement, the Swantos survive on credit lines and sympathetic bankers.
Retirement is out of the question.
And optimism is the only answer. It's not just a community's elderly, but its economics that the state's nursing homes are nurturing - and that may not be clear until the residents are cast to the four winds to live elsewhere and the building is gone. The news has been rife of late with details of the devastating condition of the state's nursing homes, and there is no dearth of those facilities going under. But Moore has made it his mission to get out the word about the value of a nursing home in the community. In the latest, the association touted the state nursing homes' contributions to Wisconsin's economy, citing that they provide jobs, income and sustainability to local businesses in the communities where the homes are located.