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US Nursing Home Residents Should Know Their Rights

Human Rights Watch has released a guide about US nursing facility residents’ rights concerning medication in easy-to-read formats. This guide aims to fill an important gap, supporting older people in knowing and claiming their rights.

10 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Nursing Home

The decision to put a loved one in a nursing home is never easy. But if you're armed with the right information, you'll be able to find a facility that will treat your family member respect and allows them to live a healthy, vibrant life.

What If Residents Decided How Their Nursing Home Would Run?

It seemed like a radical idea: Let each nursing home residents decide when to eat. But that and other person-centered care helps make them happier.

How one nursing home is helping its residents regain a sense of purpose.

When It's Time for a Nursing Home, Caregiving Choices

Caregivers often feel an emotional mix of relief and guilt, reassurance and anxiety surrounding decisions over putting a parent in a nursing home.

When In-Home Care is the Superior Option to Nursing Homes

Just a generation or two ago, a nursing home was a common destination for our senior loved ones when they needed greater support than what family can provide.

Can the Nursing Home Take My House?

Specifically, you may be asking yourself “ Can the nursing home take my house? ”

Is it Time for a Nursing Home?

"Last week, my mom found a way to get out of the house. She was missing for three hours. We were frantic. She was missing for three hours. I'm ashamed of myself for failing to care for her. Is it time to look for a nursing home?"

Home Care or Nursing Home?

As people age, sooner or later, there comes a time when a new level of care is needed. Even individuals who have been very independent all their lives may require assistance after the onset of a disease like Alzheimer’s. When such a change in care becomes vital, a common decision to be taken is…

Do You Know the Signs of Nursing Home Abuse?

Learn the signs of nursing home abuse and neglect so that you can protect your friends and family members. Call our Sacrament nursing home abuse attorney if you suspect abuse. We can help you hold the parties responsible for the abuse liable.

Is It Necessary to Trade Your Home for Nursing Home Care?

Your home may not be the only answer to paying for nursing home care.

Pay attentive visits when considering a nursing home

Q. How can I be certain I'm picking a good nursing home?<br>A. The majority of people entering a nursing home are doing so from a hospital, with guidance from a discharge planner. That said, knowing about long-term care facilities in your area will help ensure that you or your loved one is going to the most appropriate one.

Making Tough Decisions: Is There No Choice But a Nursing Home?

It’s something many of us have done. Our parents are in their middle years and have come home from visiting someone in a nursing home. The hospital-like structure of the older nursing home was disturbing to them. While relating their experience to you they say that they’d hate to end up in a place like that. You jump in and say with feeling and genuine belief, "I’d never put you in a nursing home."

Who really pays for nursing-home care?

Conventional wisdom holds that Medicare won’t pay for elder care, but that’s not exactly true.

How to Compare Nursing Homes

There are many things you need to do when comparing nursing homes.

Nursing Home: Benefits of Exercise for Older Adults

Exercise is a huge component of good physical and mental health for seniors and nursing homes. Nursing Home: Benefits of Exercise for Older Adults

How to Avoid Nursing Homes

America's aging don't want to leave the places where they've lived for decades. What do they need to manage at home?

Do you know how to pick a nursing home?

As you and your spouse age, or your parents begin to age, you should consider that there may be a need for a nursing home. Finding a quality facility can take some time and you may want to begin