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Young people deserve age-appropriate surroundings when they need nursing home care by Carol Bradley Bursack Posted Sun 16 Jan 2011 12:00am seemed startling and unfair. Read more about young people in nursing homes: Find care agencies to help you care for your loved ones: Support a caregiver or jump start... Years ago, my friend and neighbor, Joe, for whom I was a primary caregiver, broke his hip. Joe, a man in his eighties, went from the hospital to a nursing home Read on »

New National Poll Finds Americans Strongly Opposed to Cutting Medicare Payments for Nursing Home Care as a Means of Financing He by Health: Hearsay & Headlines Posted Tue 01 Sep 2009 5:36pm Mellman Group (D) national survey (1000 Registered Voters, 8/21-24, +/- 3%) finds Americans, by significant margins, strongly oppose cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care over other funding options. Underscoring the unpopularity of cutting Medicare-financed nursing home care - now proposed by Congress - the data finds a full 66% of voters less likely Read on »

What to Do If You Aren't Happy With Nursing Home Care by Carol Bradley Bursack Posted Thu 01 Apr 2010 12:00am After spending fifteen years visiting a nursing home nearly every day for one or more loved ones, I learned a few things. One of them was how to be realistic about the care even the most well-run nursing home can provide, and the other is how to work through the chain of command when you have a legitimate issue with the care provided Read on »

Spousal Refusal A Method of Survival With Medicaid Covering the Costs of Nursing Home Care for The Sick Spouse by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Sun 12 Dec 2010 3:21am a monthly income of less than $2700 a month. If that level is exceed, the the healthy spouse needs to help pay along with Medicaid. Nursing home care is around $100,000 a year... in a nursing home, where the bills ran past $100,000 a year, threatening to quickly drain the couple’s life savings of $500,000. The nursing home told him not to worry: If he signed Read on »

Medi-Cal Planning For Skilled Nursing Home Care in California by Mom-n-Me Posted Mon 11 Oct 2010 8:04pm On e of the greatest fears of elderly Americans is that they may require nursing home care. This not only means a great loss of personal autonomy, but also a tremendous financial price. Depending on location and level of care, nursing homes cost between $35,000 and $150,000 per year. Most people end up paying for nursing home care out Read on »

Death of spouse ups odds of nursing home care by My Elder Advocate Patient Expert

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Posted Sat 29 Nov 2008 12:21pm An older person's likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates. "It may be related to the loss of social and instrumental support, in the form of care and help with daily activities such as help in cooking, cleaning, and shopping Read on »

Nursing and care homes: the new schools 4 basic nursing care? by h2cm Posted Mon 25 Jan 2010 4:01pm I do not wish to denigrate the quality of care in nursing homes, as I've blogged previously there are others better placed to do that when needed. In some the nursing care... visit and use your senses. As a nurse you are duty bound to assess the quality of care wherever your practice takes you. In the homes where the care is very poor Read on »

Rating Nursing Homes and Senior Care Services. A Yelp for Elder Care is Needed. by Mark Willaman (SeniorCareMarketer.com) Posted Wed 15 Jul 2009 6:24pm

1 Comment inspection results and how many hours of licensed nursing care are provided each day. The nursing homes industry is complaining that the grading system was started much too quickly... in each facility. For example, nursing homes say simple counting of workers does not reflect the care patients actually receive, while consumer advocates complain that employee Read on »

Why are they taking money from Nursing Homes and Home Health Care? by Lisa D. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 28 Oct 2008 9:48pm On August 1st the House of Representatives voted on bill 3162 that takes money from our elderly and gives it to underprivileged, uninsured children. Right motive, wrong strategy. Read a review of the bill. Stuart H. Shapiro and Paul R. Langevin Jr. did a nice review at The Morning Call.com. Here are the role call votes for your Minnesot ... Read on »

Mentally Ill in Nursing Homes Often Lack Advance Care Plans by HealthFinder Posted Thu 06 Jan 2011 12:00pm ) -- Nursing home residents with serious mental illnesses are less likely to have advance care directives than those with no mental illness, researchers have found. An advance care.... U.S. researchers looked at four types of advance care plans among 13,500 residents in 1,174 nursing homes: living wills; do-not-resuscitate orders; do-not-hospitalize orders Read on »