Tag Archives: Nursing
Find the right nursing home
You’d never choose a new house without visiting and inspecting it. Yet too often families do just that for a nursing home. A typical scenario: A fall sends Mom to the hospital, and you’ve got a day or two to find a home prior to her discharge.
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Private Nursing Homes Get Failing Grades for Quality of Care
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is currently studying the relationship between the sale and purchase of nursing homes by private firms and the quality of care provided by those facilities. Learn more about the study and what people should look for in choosing a nursing home.
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Dehydration, Malnourishment, and Nursing Home Abuse
If you have a loved one in a nursing home, you want nursing home staff to care for him or her as a family member. Unfortunately, nursing home abuse and neglect are all too common in today’s society.
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What To Do If You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing homes have a responsibility to provide high quality care and a safe living environment to all of their residents.
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What to Do if You Think Your Family Member is a Victim of Nursing Home Abuse
There can be several signs of nursing home abuse and neglect that you may notice while visiting your loved one. Physical abuse is often more easy to identify as its signs are more likely to be obvious.
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Improper Use of Bed Rails in Nursing Homes
A few years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidelines to stem the growing numbers of elderly who had become entrapped and injured with bed rails.
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Determining What Type of Nursing Home Facility Your Loved One Needs
When the thought of a nursing home comes to mind, most people think of 24-hour care facilities.
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Nursing Home Residents Have Higher Surgery Risks
Surgery risks are greater for elderly residents of nursing homes and they also suffer more complications after having surgery than people their age who live on their own.
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