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Death of spouse ups odds of nursing home care by My Elder Advocate Patient Expert An older person's likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility... to the loss of social and instrumental support, in the form of care and help with daily activities...
Spousal Refusal A Method of Survival With Medicaid Covering the Costs of Nursing Home Care for The Sick Spouse by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Nursing home care is around $100,000 a year and in some areas such as New York, it is higher... , had to be put in a nursing home, where the bills ran past $100,000 a year, threatening to quickly drain...
Elderly Heart Failure Patients Face Poorer Outcomes if Nursing Home Care Needed by Anthony Cirillo Patient ExpertHealth Maven Elderly heart failure patients who need skilled nursing care after discharge from the hospital... of treatment for heart failure. Approximately 14% of the seniors discharged to skilled nursing care...
Why are they taking money from Nursing Homes and Home Health Care? by Lisa D. Patient Expert 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. Shap
Threats of Nursing Home Lawsuits Do Not Improve Care by Anthony Cirillo Patient ExpertHealth Maven Nursing homes with high quality ratings are sued almost as often as lower performing nursing... about nursing home lawsuits provided by five large U.S. nursing home chains, between 1998 and 2006.  On average...
HCP Inc. To Pay Carlyle Group $6.1 billion for HCR ManorCare's Nursing Home Properties–Biggest Private Equity Deal of the by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven last month opened up an inquiry into the quality of care given in nursing homes owned by private equity firms... estate assets of nursing home giant HCR ManorCare Inc. HCP is acquiring 338 post-acute, skilled...
GAO Report on For-Profit Nursing Homes: Deficiencies Swell, Direct Care Staffing Declines, Profit Margins Soar For Investors by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven -trained, direct care staff…everyone that is, but the nursing home industry.” The report (GAO-11... to this latest report things are not moving along much better.  Medicare cuts to nursing homes don’t help either...
Today one of the home care nurse... by Emily T. Patient Expert Today one of the home care nurses from the Brompton came round to pick up bits and pieces... for so long. It was lovely to see my nurse again; I haven’t seen her since transplant so we had a lot...
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Overseeing Care of a Nursing Home Patient by Dr. Charlotte Thompson Medical Doctor Those of us who have had family members or close friends in a nursing home can give many accounts of less than adequate care. No matter how carefully you check out a nursing home there are many things...

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Seeing Mom's Humanity First, Instead of Her Disease
of the person. So how do you help people -– and in some cases, nursing home staff members... came to the nursing home’s secure unit, a few of the nurse’s aides treated Mom as a patient with Alzheimer’s, instead... throughout the nursing home. This aide (who was assigned to another hallway) would always check on Mom, assisting...crap

care without losing the business and her home. The home is co-owned with her daughter. Thank You
My mother is 85 and needs nursing home care.  She receives Social Security and owns a business, but of course, does not work.  The family works the buisness.  Will she be able to get nuring home care without losing the buisiness and her home.  The home is co-owned with her daughter.  Thank You. Snickerscrap

Sometimes things go SO wrong
, in order to avoid nursing home care for our mom or state care for our sister, turned into a complete... and a half (including my selling my home in another state and moving away from my own children, so I could live near my brother, so we could share the responsibilities of caring for our Mom and sister...crap

Do You Know Who Your Ombudsman Is? These Advocates Offer Invaluable Help
.   An ombudsman is the advocate for the residents of care homes, including nursing homes and assisted living... nursing homes, we worry. How will they be without our constant oversight? The change for me wasn't dramatic, when my first elder went into a nursing home, as it was my uncle and my parents...crap

Senate Will Seek Out Stiffer Sanctions on Nursing Homes
on nursing homes that did not give proper care to its patients, in addition to requiring more transparent... two-thirds of nursing home care through its Medicare and Medicaid programs.   This response... on the poor care patients are receiving at nursing homes bought by large investment groups, who then cut costs...crap

A Different Way To Distinguish Between Good, and Bad Nursing Homes
like nursing homes.   Goffman published his work on institutions in 1961, in a book called ‘Asylums: Essays... familiar?   Anyone who has worked in care homes for people with dementia will recognize some aspects.... Make no mistake, nursing homes are hard work. The volume of work is demanding and staffing levels...crap

Can We Rate Nursing Homes Like Restaurants?
. It seems to me that it's more of a political move than a real effort to uncover bad care facilities. Nursing homes... show up on a five star rating system?   Nursing homes aren't restaurants. They are care centers...-star ranking system for nursing homes. At first blush, this seems like a terrific idea. Families could easily...crap

Bad Nursing Home List a Good Thing: Let’s Get This Fixed
. Unfortunately, not all of our elders who need care will be in  nursing homes with resident centered approaches... our nursing homes and other options for our elders, and how this is being done in many pockets of our country... list of the 54 poorest performing nursing homes in America.   I read the New York Times article titled...crap