"Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
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> "Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" > wrote in message
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>> I don't think this concept is new but it's the first time I've seen a pub
>> in a nursing home. I've seen pubs in assisted living high rises and in
>> apartment buildings but never a nursing home.
>>
>> Michael
>
> Guinness unfiltered and unpasturized in the bottle is a well tried and
> true
> tonic for the elderly and sick. Guinness used to be prescribed by
> physicians
> in Ireland and England as a regular tonic. Unfortunately the unfiltered
> and
> unpasturized stout is not available outside Ireland. It is high in
> nutrients. The pub in the UK and Ireland has a much more important social
> impact than any analog in the US. Especially in Ireland where the village
> (or local) pub(s) is the center of local life from child care to senior
> care. It makes great sense and compassion to incorporate this bit of
> "real"
> life into the confines of a care facility.
>
I've oft wondered the value of pubs being "...the center of local life from
child care to senior care." My only contact with a pub(s) was in England
many years ago, and a few 'take-off pubs' in the US where the main event was
drinking beer and throwing darts and a plowman's lunch.
The only other knowledge I have is seeing pubs as they are show on travel
shows or the film. I think it would be very distracting to family life to
think that instead of the kids spending time with their family at home,
doing homework, watching TV, sports, that they would leave the house to get
more social life. Is not home life/family life enough, along with probably
their social life in the church. Do they not have visitors or dinners at
their house, or is this in addition to the pub? Do they invite friends to
the pub for dinner? How often do they go to pubs? Do husbands settle
arguments by going to the pub, thus relieving tension? Do wives go with
sisters? Doesn't it get expensive to spend time in a pub ordering guiness
and poo-poo's (tee-hee). In films, a guy is always laid-off, but with money
still in his pocket to have a pint and smoking cigarettes. Lawsey me, I
just can't understand it. However, I feel that our seniors here in the
U.S. could really benefit from some pub-fun.
Dee Dee