There is a lot more than the food wrong with the nursing homes. If you were to take a child to daycare, there are certain standards such as client to staff ratio. You have to make water available!!!, you have to be actively involved (not just sitting at the desk visiting with other workers), you have to have programs available and encourage interaction (not just leave them in their beds), mentally ill children are getting appropriate care, (not made to be your permanent room mate), diapers are changed - frequently, when flowers are sent, they do not go home with staff. It is despicable and it can only get worse.

I have personally seen situations much, much worse than you have described here Bob. I remember working inside one of these long term care establishments in a more rural Alberta community for about a 1 week period.
I remember one elderly gentlemen who would sit in a wheelchair in a hallway for hours, his body bent over backwards and sideways, drooling down on to the floor, in such an acute uncomfortable angle,..this just had to be painful. Nobody around.
In the same hallway,..the lady in the wheelchair, obviously paralyzed from a stroke, unable to speak or move one side of her body, trying to wheel herself down the hallway by pulling herself along with her one working foot,...NOBODY around to help her.
Or the lady in one of the rooms,...calling out continually for hours,..for who knows what...and hearing the "nurse" yelling at her from down the hall to be quiet,..we'll get there soooon!
My friend reporting to me about his father, staying in the same "facility" who hadn't had his diapers changed in 2 days...and his body covered in bed sores, with urine soaked sheets. Nobody around!!!
But DON'T YOU COMPLAIN,...or you will be punished!!!
Or my 92 year old Auntie Betty, (Auntie Betty's mind was as sharp as a tack, great sense of humor),...staying in her high priced Catholic "care" home,..who caught one of the nurses, in her private room, going through her dresser drawers, looking for valuables, which she said went missing,..and upon complaining was "punished" for doing so,..how,...no assistance when she needed to go to the bathroom,...result,...she crapped herself! My advice to her would be to do that every time....then for sure
She was deathly fearful of us saying anything,...because she knew she would be punished when we left.
Kind of makes you want to pull a Clint Eastwood,...from the movie "Unforgiven"....
"You better treat Ned right,...or I'll come back and kill all you SOBs.
Too much Bob??? I don't think so!

Inmate: "Could I get another slice of tomato?"
Care guard: "You already have 2,..that's what you're allowed!..Eat your food and shut up!"
Inmate: "But Mildred over here, didn't have any tomatoes, and said I could have hers?"
Care guard: "Be quiet, or we'll show you some tomatoes!"
Inmate: "My doctor says that tomatoes are good for me, so can I have Mildreds?
Care guard: "Yes, I heard that, no you can't and, in fact I'm going to take these away, and give you more beans!"
Inmate: "My doctor says I'm allergic to beans!"
Care guard: "Eat your beans!"

Reading the comments I realize some are getting Nursing homes/long term cares/ and continuing care mixed up with Lodges. We assume the Lodges for Seniors fall under the auspice of Alberta Health Services or private facilities when in fact they come under housing. Therefore there really is no overseer of the standards and protocols. I agree we need unions. This protects the conscientious employee from retribution from unenlightened management. We also need to have advocates for our seniors in Lodges. How sad, Mr. Layton, that your father in his later life had to fear being booted out. What stingy a$$$ person decided 3 slices of tomatoes was not allowed? He paid to live in that lodge and we pay for him to live in that lodge (check your property taxes notices). Meals should the one of the bright spots in a Senior's day. Not an opportunity for an employee to chastise a resident.