[galfarragem]

IMO nursing homes problem will be solved as other expensive activities have been solved (or patched): relocation and offshoring.

How much does cost a low-end nursing home in the US? In South Europe $2k can get you a mid-end nursing home.

[afarrell]

I can't quite tell if you are being satirical, but some folks wouldn't be okay with having their parents live in Ecuador and never seeing them.

[tomjen3]

But okay with them in Utah or some other state far away? You can just got to Columbia once a year as you fly once a year to Utah. Plus the whether is better.

[afarrell]

I didn't see any mention in the article of putting family in far-away states. My family (who'd moved south of Boston) put my great-grandmother in a home in Connecticut, near where she had lived.

Is it common practice to do this?

[eru]

Plus automation and computers, perhaps.

[galfarragem]

People are not cattle but for sure there are plenty of room for automation improvement.

[eru]

Even eg just putting seniors on videochat with some `penpals' might help some.