Michigan Votes Forum

 This is of great concern to me as an RN and a senior citizen.  I must you ask why? What is the rationale for making alcohol more available?.  Our seniors are very vulnerable, as it is with all of the medications in use today and the reduced physical abilities, i.e vision and hearing.  This seems like a dangerous situation that makes alcohol even more available in our society as a whole.  Alcohol is a very potent and dangerous drug, whether you want to hear that or not, it is a fact.   Alcohol needs to be carefully monitored for societal health and well being.  I do not suppport the proliferation of any more alcohol licenses.  We need to greatly reduce the ones that are available now.

 alcohol is available to the residents of these centers. so why not allow them to purchase it onsite?

and why the attitude against more liquor licenses? if you choose not to drink, do not drink. do not make that decision for others.

you have no right.

 Why is a liquor license needed. Allow them to have a bottle and let the home dispense it, like a bottle club. This looks likes some nursing homes are looking for another way to profit off of seniors. Will those suffering dementia and other mental illness be allowed to purchase alcohol from the nursing home bar?  Will they use the money from the sales of alcohol to pay for the broken hips and other injuries caused by seniors falling down because of the booze?

A few more things. Why just nonpublic retirement centers?  Are the people in public centers not allowed a drink with their meals-even if someone else buys or are licenses available only to those who care for the upscale and elite?  How/ who will choose which continuing care centers get licenses? Looks to me like maybe these 20 "continuing care centers" may be a playground for the wealthy and should be taxed as such.

Is there a requirement for a system to deny alcohol to those who take medicine that may have adverse effects when alcohol is used? I know there is no requirement for such system in public bars, but people do not live in bars and many of people in these "continuing care" centers are there because they are not capable of taking care of themself-for various reasons.

I think a bottle club type of system would be better if a method of keeping the help out of the inventory is present.

Maybe it's just that our politicians are looking toward their retirement in one of the grounded cruise ships/upscale "Continuing care centers".