I had not considered this possibility. Imagine not having to be placed in an assisted living facility as your wealth is drained. Imagine not being at the mercy of low skilled workers.
Then again, we may end our lives fighting evil as the nation falls. If I get an Optimus, the first training requirement will be field dressings on the battlefield.
15 responses to “The End of Assisted Living Facilities?”
If this worked (and that’s a big if) it would be an outstanding development. I detest assisted living and nursing homes. Under the current business model, they are often owned and operated by private equity firms, their staffing is awful (mostly blacks and third world invaders) who often steal from and abuse the residents, who are mostly helpless to fight back. And as you rightly pointed out, they are designed fully with the intent of draining whatever funds/assets one has, to ensure it’s all gone by the time you drop dead, and leave absolutely nothing to inherit for your next of kin. It is a terrible business in almost every respect.
It is a terrible business full of con artists and poorly paid thus low-grade employees that at least in my area mostly white and never around after about 6 months.
However, it’s a natural result of destroying the family per socialism (and worse). Destroy the family to increase the power of the State.
Bible speaks of treating your father and mother with respect when they are old and feeble. Not tossing them out to the “tender mercies” of others to take care of them until they die off.
One of the great strengths of successful families during the Great Depression was they TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER. Multi-Generational households kept Grandma watching her grandchildren while everybody who could did ANYTHING to bring some food, firewood, a dab of money for taxes and so on INTO the FAMILY.
Those families that didn’t did things like daddy ran away (not just a Black thing) and Mom with a sign trying to give her children to people with cars because they were “rich”. Folks became homeless and drifters seeking employment anywhere as “Welfare” wasn’t a LIFESTYLE like today.
I wonder if such family strength will be found again when the next Great Depression shows up. Or will the hate boomers and such divisions the powers that BE use to keep We the People divided and fighting each other continue.
Meanwhile we who don’t ignore that we are getting older make plans as mot to be tossed to the “tender mercies” of Elder Care.
Still not sure about the robot though.
Michael, Excellent comment! You hit the nail squarely on its head. I couldn’t agree more.
“… make plans as not to be tossed to the “tender mercies” of Elder Care.” I adopted a plan from the Native Americans. I talked to my son and my sons-in-law. I told them that when the time comes (when I’m no further use to anyone) I intend to take a walk in the woods in the winter, find a nice tree, preferably with a nice view, sit down beneath it and let nature take its course. Just sit there and wait for the cold to do its work.
That’s my plan. We’ll see if I have the courage to carry it out.
A robot that can cook, clean, provide limited medical care, wash clothes and other daily tasks for $20,000 can be justified when compared to the price of assisted living.
From Grok:
In the United States, the national median monthly cost for assisted living is typically in the range of about $5,400–$6,200 as of 2025–2026 data, depending on the source.
The most widely cited industry benchmark comes from the CareScout (formerly Genworth) Cost of Care Survey for 2025 (data collected July–November 2025, released early 2026). It reports a national median of $6,200 per month (or $74,400 annually) for a one-bedroom unit in an assisted living community. This represented a 5% increase from the prior year’s median of $5,900.
My grandmother was in one of these for years until she passed away, while one of her sons (my uncle) and his kids lived only a couple miles away. Her “apartment” was about a 140 s.f. room with a closet and only a couple of her things, it was dark and dreary, and she paid nearly $5000 per month for it until she ran out of money and was forced to move out when she was 100. She lived her remaining days (2+ years) in a social security funded place that was run down and evidently not anywhere as clean (I never saw it), as I had only visited her with my dad in the previous place (which was 800 miles from us).
So, despite what everyone says about AI, (yeah, dangerous to be sure) it also has the opportunity to do great good, including what this post is about. People will also be able to use it to learn to be healthier, more money efficient, and perhaps some of the biggest drains on our society (pharma) may be overcome.
There’s a point to be learned by the fact David often makes use of Grok… it is an enormously powerful tool. Instead of fearing it, learn to use it. Learn how it works. Use it for your benefit instead of the endless fear porn that permeates so many posts here and elsewhere. It’s not going away unless the grid collapses, so learn to use it to work for you, so you won’t be so unprepared when someone uses it against you.
Hahaha, you think you’re going to own the robot? Pay once and its yours forever? Like the land your house is on, right?
No.. you will RENT the robot. Bled dry until your dying days. Then the democrats will declare it a human right to hold a robot hand and look into its CCD array while you die, and then they’ll be covered by medicare and given to the illegals and minorities who never worked a day in their life.
Your’s is on a waiting list at the VA.
Yes, and that’s precisely where I see this going. Which is why I began with the qualifier “if this worked (and that’s a big if)”. I have only the slimmest of hope that such an arrangement could or would end up working in favor of anyone but big corporate whores.
Michael is correct that what is needed is a return to a multi -generational family model, but that isn’t coming back for the benefit of any of us reading this. Perhaps, post collapse, such a fundamental shift will be possible in 50+ years. I figure it will take at least two more generations to reach that point, and to “unlearn” the perverted ways that have been forced upon us over the last 2-3 generations. I’ll be long dead before that state of affairs ever comes to pass.
Big Ruckus I hope that folks take the multi-generational housing seriously.
Why?
#1 Manpower. Without folks I trust living on the homestead how do you keep a minimal security watch? I have to Sleep sometime.
But I have dogs (and so forth), folks if I was a bad guy I’d watch your place for a few days. Count the number of armed folks, plan on how to use your dogs against you. HOW? By sending one or two folks to make a fuss so the Dogs ALERT and you all get up EVERY NIGHT for a week.
All of you have to sleep by then. Then a quiet dog elimination occurs just before we hit you.
#2 Manpower related, if I stumble and twist an ankle, I have ready onsite help for treatment and getting chores done I’ll not be able to for a few days, maybe a week.
Don’t know about your area but a week with only the ready rack of firewood in winter could end up be really frozen.
#3 Manpower related raw firepower with folks I trust covering my 6 on site.
DO you REALLY think your buddies a mile plus down the road are going to abandon their homes to rush over to save your place in an attack?
If so, the attackers retreat and plan to distraction attack one place while waiting until that home’s defenders head over to the distraction.
American Indians did it often enough.
All relate to scripture BTW Ecclesiastes 4:12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
#4 is for the slow collapse. A single dwelling with more than one family working odd jobs and gardening and so on can better keep the TAX MAN and Bank debts paid and out of your face.
Gov.com and Banks (almost one and the same in the Great Depression) WILL Get their money.
#5 as above but being able to better scrounge firewood as a team and if available AFFORD ever more expensive electricity.
I could go on but this is enough.
Solo Wolves die.
I, Robot anyone? You will not ….end your life fighting evil as the nation falls. The little red light will come on, and that robot will take you out.
“That detective, is the right question. Program terminated”.
Couple things… I actually really like the idea, and like David, I had not considered this… I also understand the point made by Joe Blow, but within only a couple of years this technology will be ubiquitous AND open-source, and buying one of these will be straightforward and without the risks associated with the mega corporations, so his point will be moot very soon.
The main risk of course is surveillance, and the only real way to overcome that is once again open-source robots and open-source AI. Considering the pushback against spyphones and Flock cameras, there will be a significant market for this. Oh, and having it connected online to Grok? Well, double-edged sword. On the one hand, surveillance, but on the other, the ability to immediately get help if there is a medical issue or an injury from a fall, etc. The simple way to handle this is have an offline AI model that the robot can interface with, even based on Grok, running on a home server that is isolated from the network (a huge plus when the network goes down or is hacked), which can provide medical advice, companionship, conversation, and other interaction very nearly as well as online Grok can, and an exception to connect in an emergency to seek assistance.
These units can also be programmed for very specific tasks, as in David’s example of field dressings on the battlefield. Or fighting fire. Maybe even programmed to operate a drone-killer.
That all sounds great, but I have serious doubts that it will play out that way. The present business model will almost certainly have these as “always connected” and paid on a subscription basis, subject to any changes the company that controls the software cares to implement unilaterally. If we can break from that way if doing business, then I can see the upside potential.
But in the current environment, I just can’t see it working the way you envision. To do open source will require the hardware not to be locked down (in much the same way that smartphones are typically locked down to the network provider that sold them to you), and “breaking” the stock software in order to improve the robot’s functionality with open source code, will automatically be a violation of the DMCA, and leave one open to prosecution. I don’t see the companies making these being willing to sell “unlocked” models with easily replaced operating software, as that will cause them to forego future control of the robot, and the anticipated income stream that would generate for them.
Since that ongoing income stream has become a central part of nearly all current tech, I don’t know how we get to a point where actual outright ownership of a device is solely in the hands of the end user who purchased it. The license agreements that accompany any new tech one buys now are a nightmare of legalese, that often cannot be made full sense of by the purchaser, which is all by design, of course. This is how these tech companies want it, and they will not abandon these practices without major force of law to stop them. Does anyone here think this government has even the slimmest chance of imposing such regulation on the industry?
All fair points. I submit that we will be able to use AI to design and create our own robots, and implement our own open-source operating systems into them. I think that genie is out of the bottle already.
That may be our only hope of putting this technology properly to work for ourselves. I very much doubt we will ever get commercially developed robots that won’t be locked down and loaded with stipulations that make them both an ongoing expense (entirely by design), and trustworthy enough for them not to be a risk to our health and safety.
I remain skeptical that will happen, though. As it is, we can barely get computers and smart phones that aren’t locked down and designed from the ground up to compromise our privacy and security. If we were destined to retake control of all this tech for ourselves, other simpler things that are already compromised like consumer drones, smart TV’s and major appliances would already be getting gutted of their stock electronics and open sourced.
So, I’m not optimistic about the future of high tech working for US, rather than for big corp and big gov. It would please me immensely to be proved wrong in that account.
Well, there’s this: https://www.both.org/?p=9525
We’re closer than we imagine… In a good way.
Ha! That’s my Rosey the Robot! (from the Jetsons).