Talk:Granny dumping

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Aarnold2289. Peer reviewers: Cjp0001, SukLanSer, Jboyle0.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:56, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review (Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment)
Hello!

I think the article has a very good start. I would add categories such as how often this occurs, and when it peaks, as well as the implications this has on hospitals, maybe facts about the monetary cost hospitals have to put out to care for them as well as insurance prices on the patients or families.

I would also expand on why people do this, maybe find some more primary sources including statistics about how many people were left and in what countries it is worse in. Otherwise, great job!

Cjp0001 (talk) 20:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia. I'd suggest instead of writing reviews of articles, you go ahead and edit the articles yourself making the changes directly instead of suggesting others to do it. That's, after all, how Wikipedia works. Go for it. Veritycheck✔️ (talk) 21:21, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Great work on your the article! It was informative and easy to follow through. As I was researching into the topic, I found a journal article that might be useful for further editing and elaboration. J.Conard talks about how hospitals deal with this 'Granny dumping' phenomenon as part of their responsibility SukLanSer (talk) 02:36, 15 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but who are you addressing? Wikipedia is a collaborative project, so 'your' is rather meaningless. There is no ownership - see WP:OWNERSHIP. Ten editors have contributed to this article so far. Hit View History at the top of the article's page. Why not be the eleventh and add your input directly? Go for it! Veritycheck✔️ (talk) 16:26, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

NOTE to both students and staff. No one from your program has yet to make a contribution to the article itself. A "Peer review" seems misplaced here. What is more, how does granny dumping, the abandoning of an elderly family member, relate to your course, "Using genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry to understand human disease"? Seems a bit of a stretch. I've amended the section heading to show that this section concerns students in your course and not Wikipedia editors at large. Veritycheck✔️ (talk) 17:50, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

“Senicide”?
Terrible opening sentence: “Granny dumping (informal) is a form of modern senicide.” The majority of families engaging in this practice aren’t trying to kill an elderly relative; in most cases quite the opposite, they have found themselves unable to care for the person and bring them to a place (hospital, nursing home) to be taken care of by somebody else. These families are overwhelmed, burned out, exhausted, and quite possibly broke. (Speaking as somebody whose family is having an extremely difficult time with an elderly and very frail mother who has plenty of money but won’t allow us to use it for her care; I can’t imagine trying to do this without any financial means of our own. She is currently in a dump of a rehab facility because that’s the only place that could take her after a fall; in a week she’ll be discharged to home to be cared for by an elderly sister and a daughter who she treats like shit and is close to having a nervous breakdown.) 98.192.193.83 (talk) 21:21, 20 March 2024 (UTC)