Nursing Homes 
On any given day,
nursing homes, or as many are now called, "long-term care facilities", are caring for about one in twenty Americans over the age of 65. ....
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Nursing Homes & Federal Funding Regulations
Nursing homes which receive federal funding must comply with a set of federal regulations which dictate a standard of minimum care to be given (Federal, 2005). ....
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A Nursing Home
.... com, 2005). They are always full. The number of
nursing homes has not grown to meet the growth in anticipated need. Hospital beds ....
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Nursing Home Care
.... a doctor. Each year, hundreds of North Carolina's elderly suffer needlessly in the
nursing homes they turn to for care. They lie ....
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Nursing Home Care
.... The main theme of Making Gray Gold is that
nursing homes are bureaucratic institutions that could use a healthy dose of "mother's wit." Mother's wit describes ....
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Goal Setting Progam of a Nursing Home
LUKE'S
NURSING HOME The problem of accidents involving elderly patients in a variety institutional health care settings, including
nursing homes, is growing in ....
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Nursing home care and its alternatives
.... increasingly geriatric population.
Nursing homes have become part of the solution and part of the problem.
Nursing home care has ....
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RN Staffing Mix
.... V. (2004). Nurse staffing patterns and quality of care in
nursing homes. Health Care Management Review, 29(2), 107-116. The theses ....
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Convalescent Hospitals
The service I chose to explore is convalescent hospitals, or
nursing homes. Every year millions of elderly people are admitted to ....
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Caring for Aged Relatives
.... That being said, I believe there are good and bad
nursing homes. I believe that the best
nursing homes are ones that pay attention to detail. ....
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Nursing Home Depression & Quality Care The purpose of this study ...
.... It should be noted that there are several factors which can play a role in the depression levels of elderly patients residing in
nursing homes. ....
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Occupational Therapy in Long-Term Care Setting
.... Most elderly persons receiving occupational therapy in the contemporary period receive such services in
nursing homes or in other skilled
nursing facilities. ....
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Nursing Home Placement & Incontinence
.... In one such study, Ouslander, Maloney, Grasela, Rogers and Walawander (2001) evaluated the implementation of such a program in five
nursing homes located in ....
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Nursing Associations
.... For instance, there is the myth that older people are necessarily sick, yet few elderly actually live in
nursing homes, and many have no disabilities whatsoever ....
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Housing & Disabled People
Once relegated to
nursing homes and public institutions, disabled persons are now demanding full integration into the mainstream community. ....
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Nursing Care in Terminal Situations
.... For example, people often contrast hospitals and
nursing homes with hospices, assuming that the former exert a great deal of energy prolonging life against the ....
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New directions in nursing home ethics
.... Full Text COPYRIGHT The Hasting Center 1991 New Directions in
Nursing Home Ethics
Nursing homes can be ....
Nursing homes are places to go home from and many do. ....
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Nursing Choices
.... Nurses are badly needed in
nursing homes, where they currently make up only 12 percent of the total patient care staff. Military ....
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Improving Long Term Care
Nursing homes, or "long-term care facilities", are caring for about one in twenty Americans over the age of 65. Almost half of all ....
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Role of the Professional Geriatric Nurse
.... Nearly 80% of geriatric nurses are employed by
nursing homes with the remainder working in hospitals and ambulatory settings (Milly & Mezey, p. 264). ....
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Abuse and the Elderly
.... One dimension of abuse of the elderly--that of substandard
nursing homes--has received substantial public attention and is generally accepted as a public matter ....
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Issues Regarding Elderly Patients
.... This paper looked at the incidence of the use of feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia and residing in
nursing homes (Mitchell, Teno, Roy, Kabumoto ....
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Unethical Treatment of an Elderly Woman
.... This paper looked at the incidence of the use of feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia and residing in
nursing homes (Mitchell, Teno, Roy, Kabumoto ....
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Medication Storage, Safety, Record Keeping
.... Federal guidelines discourage the use of a detailed list of drugs in
nursing homes because they have a high potential for severe adverse outcomes when ....
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Elderly Abuse
.... It has also been found that the elderly are abused in
nursing homes, hospitals, or other institutions; in one study, 36 percent of
nursing home staff stated ....
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Marketing for Long-Term Care
.... LTC may be situated in the client's home or in facilities such as
nursing homes or hospitals that are organized for the purpose of providing appropriate care. ....
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ElderCare Report
.... home, with its high-priced health care, was an expensive alternative for many individuals who simply did not need all of the services that
nursing homes provide ....
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Medicare Fraud
.... Included in this package was a pilot program to test out competitive bidding and changes in the way payments to
nursing homes, home health agencies, and other ....
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Abusive Behavior of Caregivers INTRODUCTION Background of the Prob
.... Mezey and Lynaugh (1991) have reported that: An investment in
nursing care in
nursing homes pays off, not only in better patient outcomes but in actual dollars ....
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Tuberculosis
.... Numerous studies have shown that a widespread excess risk for TB exists in
nursing homes and correctional facilities (Hutton et al., 1993, p. 305). ....
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