For elderly men and women, getting placed in a nursing home often means saying goodbye to their pets and having little contact with loved ones. In some nursing home, veterinary hospitals take pets for the elderly once a week, so they can have interaction with the animals and get a chance to pet them and play with them. Pets often reduce the feelings of stress and loneliness that is associated with living in a nursing home.
Continue Reading...When your loved one is in a nursing home, there is always a fear that you could lose them and not know the real reason why. In one nursing home, a murder failed to be reported to the health department and proper officials. The 80-year-old victim died due to head injuries after a fight that took place in the nursing home after a fight broke out with another resident.
Continue Reading...As parents get older, their children have to worry about what they should do about their care. All of a sudden the simple tasks become harder, and your parents are stubborn and set in their ways. It is difficult for any elderly individual to admit that they need help living on their own.
Continue Reading...Depression is not usually associated with the older generations. Yet elderly folks have the highest suicide rate in comparison to younger age groups. Every 90 minutes one elderly individual commits suicide. The reasons of suicide among the elderly vary. Loneliness, deteriorating health, loss of jobs or deaths of family members are just a few of the reasons why suicide rates are so high.
Continue Reading...Most families do not think about the amount of vitamins their elderly family member is receiving at a nursing home. A new study has shown that elderly individuals in nursing homes are suffering from insufficient levels of vitamin D.
Continue Reading...Trying to find the right nursing home is stressful for every family. The right environment plays a big part in the decision making process as well as the patient's safely. An investigation in South Carolina discovered that at least three sex offenders live in nursing homes in the Tri-County area. The charges the sex offenders range from lewd act on a child, indecent exposure, and criminal sexual conduct with minors.
Continue Reading...In Kentucky a death of a resident in a nursing home resulted in two lawmakers filing bills that would require people to be screened before being admitted to one of the facilities. This is a positive outcome of a bad situation. This type of bill can help protect thousands of residents in the future.
Continue Reading...There are many nursing homes that have caring and kind staff that attend to all the needs your loved on has. The kind nursing home workers are often not recognized enough for their dedication and their compassion. One family decided to pay tribute to the nursing home workers that had a great impact on their loved one’s life.
Continue Reading...Elderly patients in nursing homes spend thousands of dollars on their medications alone. As the elderly age their health problems become apparent and therefore more prescriptions are administered to them. If your loved one resides in a nursing home, you trust that the pharmacists are properly medicating them and that the medications will not affect them in a negative way. Among 32 investigations from May 2010 to June 2011, 17 of the 32 pharmacists had failed to red-flag cases that nursing home residents were inappropriately prescribed strong antipsychotic medications like Seroquel, a drug used to treat schizophrenia.
Continue Reading...According to a new study, an emergency room visit may triple the risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections for nursing home residents. The rate of an acute respiratory infection was 5% within a week of an emergency room visit compared with 2% when not leaving the long-term care facility.
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