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Rehabilitation and skilled nursing care in New Hope, Minnesota
Post-acute rehabilitation provides 24-hour skilled nursing care for people of all ages recovering from surgery, accident or illness. Also providing outpatient therapy and long-term nursing home care in New Hope, Minnesota. Visit us to learn more.
Tips for Adjusting to a Skilled Nursing Facility
Whether you or a loved one just came from the hospital or home, adjusting to a skilled nursing facility can take some time.
8 Signs it's Time to Consider a Skilled Nursing Facility
If your older loved one's daily needs for medical care and assistance with routine tasks surpasses the level of care they're receiving at home or in assisted living, it's time to consider a skilled nursing facility.
How Are Skilled Nursing Homes Different From Traditional Facilities?
Skilled and traditional nursing homes provide similar services, but they have significant differences. Find out how these facilities differ from each other.
Tough Choices: When It's Time for A Skilled Nursing Facility
There are many conversations you’ll have to have in your lifetime, but one of the most difficult ones may be with your senior loved ones. As they get older, you begin to notice red flags that may point to them not being able to live at home anymore. How are you supposed to tell them...
What Is A Skilled Nursing Facility? A Detailed Guide
What are nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities? We examine the differences and seek to define skilled nursing in this detailed guide. Read online.
When Should I Consider Moving My Loved One Into a Skilled Nursing Facility?
Family member and caregivers anguish over nursing home placement. Some feel …
Bedpans to outcomes: Why can't we quantify nursing care?
Stop passively fielding these nursing jokes. Respond with a detailed description of just how important and elaborate your care actually is.
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.
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.
What's the True Cost of Assisted Care?
If you weigh assisted living against all the potential costs of in-home care, in many cases you'll find that it is the most reasonable option.
5 Ways to Build a Culture of Caring
A culture of caring isn't just about caring for your employees and having them care for customers.
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
25 Lessons Learned from Alzheimer’s Caregivers
Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s leaves a lasting impression on our lives. Read the top 25 things learned from Alzheimer's caregivers.
6 Essential Alzheimer’s Care Tips
Caring for a senior w/ Alzheimer’s or dementia is tough. Find out how these 6 essential Alzheimer's care tips & resources make life easier & reduce stress.
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…
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.
When is it Time for Nursing Home Care?
It’s among the most difficult decisions families must make: when is it time to transition a loved one to nursing home care? There are many reasons to consider nursing home care. When your loved one is no longer able to perform the basic activities of self-care – even with assistance – nursing home care may... Read More
