If there is one thing this thread illustrates, it's that the "good old days" weren't necessarily all that good.

Let me tell you one thing though. There's a reason why some of them are in a nursing home. It's called they were so horrible to the people around them that no one wanted to take care of them when they could no longer take care of themselves. My FIL is facing that. 50 years of beating his wives and children. He's looking at a lonely existence now.

Why is there a lot of "TMI" comments on this thread? It's confessions, so therefore yes, it's much information lol if you're that offended don't read it?

please remember that patients suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's, or other brain related illness may not have actually done what they are confessing. Old memories of movies, books, newspaper stories, can resurface incompletely. But if the patient doesn't have that excuse and it's deathbed guilt, a call to authorities may help close the book on old crimes and relieve the pain of victim's families.

No one confessed to the Kennedy assassination?

I cared for my father in law who had dementia. He lost all inhibitions. Would sit for hours outside naked. He had the mental level of a toddler. Some of these people probably had/have some form of dementia. It can change personalities completely.

Not a confession just a couple of things I experienced working at nursing home I was doing the last of my clinicals at a NH by my college First I experienced a 84 yo man streaking down the hall towards the "outhouse" A former Hells Angel who thought the rolling nurses chair was his Hog and a 27 yo gentleman who was born with no bones in his legs After I left there I continued coming to see these 3 men each week for 8 months until they tore down the nursing home

Geez! Everybody here makes me feel normal. Always thought of myself as a nice person, this confirms that I'm even better than that. And my favorite bit of advice from years ago -- Even a bad example serves a purpose. Don't be like that.

I've had a Hungarian woman try to get the Filipino care aides to "join her and her husband" (from whom she was estranged) she used to change the words to white Christmas to "and may all your mistresses be white". And yes, so many stories of the "older brother" they had to stay away from or lock the bedroom door. Husbands that cheated. I had a resident that had a back alley abortion of her twin girls in the 60s (when she was married) because kids cost too much (she was very well off) I have a resident who gave birth to babies, but they died after a few days, and she cries for them, but the story that stuck with me always was a woman who married the love of her life, and he came home once during WW2 and told her his base (in England) had been bombed while the men were out flying, and all the WAC were there. The women were all in pieces, they just put approximate body weight of each woman in pieces into caskets to send back to the families because they couldn't be identified. That husband later went MIA over the white cliffs of Dover, and her second husband was a cheating selfish man that she started l stayed with until he died, in the facility with her.

My mom had a few such horrors in 40-plus years of nursing.

The first one (the original post) made me laugh and be a bit scared attst

My first job ever was doing laundry in a nursing home. I was dating my children's father at the time. He would come to visit me sometimes to bring me lunch or early to pick me up,etc. There was this lady, early 90's and from her accent from the deep south. My children's father is Indian and gets very dark in the summertime. She must've had something on the side back in her younger years or something, because she would always scream at me to get away from her man. If he was there during lunchtime, she wouldn't let anyone else feed her unless he went to talk to her, help feed her,etc. It was amusing to us, she wasn't violent or anything. The one situation that utterly disgusted me was a woman who was there on a wheelchair. Couldn't have been older than early 40's. I was given warning about her, she was difficult,etc. She was an attorney, and she was in a bad accident. Her husband while she was in a medically induced coma, went to court for power of attorney over every aspect of her

Why th does every sentence have 1 at the end

I've never heard a murder confession 🤷‍♀️

This is a depressing thread. Could not read more than a few.