Nursing homes in tourist areas

A reason why nursing homes perform so poorly in tourist-populated areas:

The kinds of people who might take unskilled jobs in the retirement home have plenty of employment alternatives in the tourist industry.

The opportunity cost of these workers’ time is high; given the low wages that the retirement home pays, it typically attracts a less skilled, less able group of workers than the other homes my wife represents. It’s not surprising, then, that the performance of the workers in this facility is generally below that of the others, and that their performance causes problems that lead to legal difficulties.