Why not? Senior Living is not all the same so that’s a bit of blanket statement.
At my parent’s place, they had free TV from Comcast. And you could add internet and phone if you wished on the same cable. Then some brilliant administrator took a deal to give them free direcTV instead, claiming it would make no difference at all.
And if you had no internet or phone from Comcast, and didn’t care that the channel numbers and UI all changed, then I suppose it didn’t! :-)
On the other hand, people who wanted internet or phone (not available from DirecTV) had to either refuse the transition, and start paying comcast for TV as well, or they could refuse the transition and stick an antenna in their room, and/or go with streaming, or they could accept DirecTV and come up with something else for their phone and/or internet. The result is a total mishmash of systems.
That admin was gone before the transition happened, and the next admin (also gone) had no idea how this cable stuff worked. I never discussed it with the admin after her, who is also gone.
Mom, 92, was able to figure out streaming – within reason. Dad, 97, wanted comcast back. Only the comcast you pay for is bigger and fancier and it turns out that he doesn’t like that either.
A bunch of people have moved into a new building a couple of miles away. You’ve reminded me that I need to email one of them and ask her how she is doing. She’s one of the ones who chose to pay comcast for TV in this building. (Yet is able to email at 101!)
