Adam Martin doesn’t fit in here. No one else in this nursing home
wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and
Jay-Z. No one else is just 26.
It’s no longer unusual to find a nursing home
resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven
people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65. But the
growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges for nursing homes,
while patients like Martin face staggering isolation.
“It’s just a depressing place to live,” Martin says.
“I’m stuck here. You don’t have no privacy at all. People die around you
all the time. It starts to really get depressing because all you’re
seeing is negative, negative, negative.” Source
