Podcast Proposal

For our podcast project, I might tackle argument being had inside of my grandmother’s home. As mentioned in my essay Raising Your Husband, my grandmother has to put up with a lot when it comes to my grandfather’s daily needs. From being fed to being changed, she does it all. Her reasoning is that he will feel home-sick if he’s put into a nursing home. She would “hate to just put him away” into assisted living and I want to know what both arguments have to say. I want to interview people who have put their own parents or grandparents in a nursing home. I would like to find out why they either did or did not put their loved one in a nursing home, where along the timeline of their illnesses and age did they decide this was the option if they did choose it, and what types of homes there are. I want to find out at what point are in-home nurses not enough and whether or not it is even ethical at all to put a loved on into a nursing home. Does it mean you don’t love them? Does it mean you’re giving them a chance to be cared for beyond your own abilities? Or does it mean you are doing the best that you can to improve their quality of life?