Imagine being dumped in a care facility by your family and then being confined to your room and denied what little human contact you have left. What a life. There is a balance these facilities need to find. These are not meant to be prisons or solitary confinement cells and many of the residents still have agency and basic human rights. If you are in one of these facilities you have very limited time left and many illnesses a healthy person could easily fight off could be a death sentence. Where do you draw the line between quality of life/mental health and stopping the spread of disease in advance age? I don't really have an answer and I suspect people in that situation may have a different outlook, if they are even capable of having rational thoughts due to dementia or other diseases that cause a decline in mental abilities. However, I will say now that if I get to the point to where I can't remember my loved ones names (or even my own), can't speak, feed myself, can't get out of bed and I am causing pain and suffering to the people I once cared about I would rather go out as quickly as possible. I would be quite upset with my family if they prolonged my suffering.
