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My hat is off to them ONLY when they provide sensitive compassionate care.
As to the demented patients....how many times is the dementia caused by the situation they are in?
All good points you´re bringing up. Just a couple comments to your post.
In my opinion it does take a special person to provide care to people in nursing home. I would think providing sensitive compassionate care day in and day out would be something extremely difficult given the nature of the profession. Compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout are very real, combine it with understaffed facilities and overload of work and you have a recipe for maybe less than perfect care. There´s no excuse for neglect of course and for doing a bad job, but give those people a break too, working in a facility like that is quite different than visting once a week.
Dementia I was referring to is an organic brain disease - or rather a symptom of an organic brain disease. Hardly caused by external circumstances in most cases.
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If I´m going to pay to see the animals, they´d better have some tricks to show! 
(j/k)
- However, been there and done that now and don´t really need to go again. I found it hard to believe how often some people have been! And that ´It´s a small world´ thing - quite weird I thought 
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