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Five Tips for Choosing a Nursing Home

Five Tips for Choosing a Nursing Home

Few decisions in life are as stressful and as personal as selecting a nursing home for a family member.

Not only are there more options than ever before in history— you’ll also get different opinions on what your priorities should be from everyone in your circle. I’ve been in the long-term care and post-acute care business for more than 20 years and, having worked with countless nursing homes in my time at The Joint Commission, I can offer some detail on how to separate those truly providing quality care from those with fancy marketing collateral.

Here’s […] Read more

Home to find a nursing home

What is a Nursing Home?
Nursing homes provide their residents with 24-hour safety monitoring, daily living assistance, and advanced on-site medical care. They also sponsor social activities such as art classes, cooking classes, birthday parties and movie nights. A nursing home is place for a person who can’t be cared for at home but don’t need a hospital. Nursing homes typically have a nursing staff on site 24 hours a day. Some are set up like hospitals with physical, speech and occupational therapy. Some have special units for Alzheimer and dementia patients. Nursing homes are not only for the elderly; they […] Read more

Why small nursing home are better

Many elderly residents are living in conditions where they are at risk of ill-treatment.

Yesterday the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which was set up to regulate the care sector, published a review of 33,000 inspections which it has carried out over the past three years.

As was widely reported yesterday it revealed that a shocking third of nursing homes had failed on safety grounds.
In one case the CQC prosecuted a home where a 62-year-old man fell off a shower chair and broke his neck.

In another case a home was prosecuted after a man died due to a mixup with his […] Read more