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I recently visited a nursing home and everyone had a TV in their room.

Instead of being calming, they were tuned to broadcast channels where the news channels announced the-world-is-going-to-pieces between loud advertisements.

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Let us consider the ethics of filtering out the news channels at the building level and injecting 24-7 Bob Ross Joy of Painting reruns in their stead.

My grandfather likes National Geographic, and was always into science programming. National Geographic and MSNBC are his channels. The last time he was in rehab, their cable subscription didn't have MSNBC, but it did have National Geographic, so I got to see a lot of it sitting with him...lo and behold, National Geographic, the channel associated with those amazing magazines I'd stack and read as a kid, now runs these weird one-sided fascist, xenophobic prison documentaries all. day. long. It's sick stuff.

I'm a millennial and I like to play video games on my spare time; usually puzzle, adventure, or platform ones. One thing I hope to imagine is that if/when I'm in an elderly care setting is if I'll be able to enjoy them in some ways like when I was a child.

I'm curious if video games being a more common (plus potentially social) activity will be more common in retirement home-like settings.

I've been thinking the same.

I may be cynical, but I don't see hospitals and nursing homes providing systems or connectivity for something like that in the future. If they do, it will be a service priced like airline wifi.

Maybe by that time we'll have personal VR setups with internet connections that route around health-care-system influence.

I think it would be more kind to have a closed automated DVR system and a rotated library of kids movies.

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