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It feels like “let’s get rid of old people”.
Those who can’t afford it, struggle at home. Family helpers get stressed and worn out. Even those who can afford facilities, are often neglected and abused (there are exceptions; good facilities do exist). The facilities that are good are often very expensive. Those that are “free” are often worse.
It’s a system that works against the elderly and their families. No respect for the elderly. If there would be more respect, strict laws would be in place about prices, quality, staffing, to make GOOD facilities accessible to all.
In the same way that one has public schools accessible to all…because education is a right. (Many years ago, it wasn’t a right.)
Being elderly and getting GOOD care should be a right.
See an Elder Law attorney about provisions made for the Community Spouse, i.e. the one who remains home.
Employees are an employer's largest expense. In an era of labor shortage, the availability of viable workers increases the costs (higher wages to attract the better people also means higher payroll taxes and benefits costs, higher worker's comp and business insurance, cost of turnover, etc).
Also, because of the larger aging Boomer population, there was a shortage of facilities. New facilities had to build when the cost of construction was as high as it's ever been (at least in my neck of the woods).
Anyone who thinks the government should pay a larger share of the the cost of care needs to remember that the government gets its money from us, the taxpayer. There is no good solution unless you want higher taxes (even if your 1-level solution is to keep "taxing the rich" -- they will eventually pick up their marbles and leave so this only works for a minute).
The problem would be partially eased if our government would fix the immigration problem to let people in faster and legally to fill those facility (and other unskilled) jobs. Choking off immigration (and using it as a political bludgeon) just worsens the labor shortage due to our decreased birth rate ).
My dream solution would be for philanstropists and foundations to temporarily redirect funds currently being poured into "sexy sounding" goals (like global warming as one example) in order to address the immediate crisis of the cost of caregiving.
Trouble is, those memories don't do a thing to help the beloved family when they have to literally give up their lives, their homes, their jobs, all their spare time and their health so they can take care of grammy and grampy, who by this time are alone in their aging original home and demand help.
I am getting to the point where I have no sympathy for grammy and grampy, the ones who didn't plan for old age. They need to be in a place where they can have fun with people their own age and be cared for by preofessionals. They could be. But instead they're ruining other peoples' lives. The memories of the overspending back in the day aren't much help.