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Austin, TX:
Registered Practical Nurses, Nursing Resource Team Homewood Health
Make a difference in a growing, innovative mental health organization and centre of excellence in people-centered care. Work with supportive colleagues who are passionate about improving lives and...
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.
How one nursing home is helping its residents regain a sense of purpose.
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.
The Growing Health Threat For Older Adults You Should Be Aware Of
A new campaign aims to bring more attention to the issue.
Caring for grandchildren linked with surprising health benefit
Older adults who look after their grandchildren might also be doing themselves a favor, new research suggests
Why Loneliness May Be the Next Big Public-Health Issue
Living alone is linked with increased chance of mortality
How Home Health Can Improve Fall Rates and Readmissions
Home health can play a significant role in reducing the number of emergency room readmissions among seniors after a fall, according to a new study focused on why older adults end up back at the hos…
What the senior and aging care industry wants from digital health innovators
There’s no getting around it: we’re all getting older. Nearly 100 million people in the United States are over the age of 50, and those over the age of 65 make up the biggest, most expensive user group of healthcare.
How Much At-Home Nursing is Too Much?
For nurses, the instinct to ease pain and care for the sick becomes so inherent that it just becomes habit, even at 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?"
Was the Nursing Home Understaffed?
Serious injury and death can result from the nursing home, convalescent center, rest home, long-term care or rehab center from being understaffed.
Where is the nurses' lounge?
Nurses take care of all of us, and its due time we take the actions to care for them as well.
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…
Is Video Surveillance Allowed in Nursing Homes?
We want to believe that our elderly loved ones will be safe and well taken care of should they need around-the-clock access to medical professionals that a nursing home can provide. Sadly, stories of nursing home neglect and nursing...
Discover These 7 Tips for Celebrating the Holidays in a Nursing Home
Discover how to help your loved one enjoy the holidays despite he or she being in a nursing facility.
How Good is Your Nursing Home?
This blog post discusses the federal government’s new changes to the nursing home rating system.
How Telemedicine is Changing Nursing Homes
In nursing homes resources are often limited, not enough for all the patients, telemedicine is trying to make sure everyone gets treated.
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."
