Letter: Shame on us for warehousing the elderly

The Salt Lake Tribune recently ran a story (May 2) on health violations in dozens of nursing homes. The story was specifically about a nursing assistant, Nigel Kooyman, who resigned from a particular nursing home due to the substandard character of the facility. Investigations of numerous other homes showed the same pattern of neglect and mismanagement.Kooyman is to be commended for exposing one of the true disgraces in our society: the way in which we "warehouse" (a word I've heard from other c