We have friends who actually take care of their parents and inlaws and that should be the model, not some assisted care warehousing the elderly. They may be pleasant to look at but all the people are so quiet and they don't talk.It is very sad. In Monterey County CA, (our relative retired to Carmel, CA located in Monterey County) there is, we allege, racial and ethnic profiling as to who gets conserved: white women. Boomer women, we really need to get the message out that we do not want to be dumbed down with drugs and we don't want to be "conserved". How many minorities get conserved? How many poor? In Monterey County probably few, if any. This terrible trend needs to be made more and more open in the media. Once a person is labeled incompetent and is conserved it is hard to undo though not impossible. Thanks for helping to get the message out. Johnny