Nursing home

throughout nursing homes. As age increases, so does depression. With depression, thoughts of suicide can occur. In an article titled “Suicide Risk in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities”, Briana Mezuk states, “Older adults have the highest suicide risks in the United States; The rate of suicide among men aged…

growing every year, and there being no signs of it slowing down, the subject of nursing homes should gain the interest of many Americans. In the history of nursing homes, abuse has been happening since nursing homes have originated. The statistics from 1970 show that majority of people in nursing homes were being abuse or neglected in some type of way. Back then there was no regulation on who worked at nursing homes; anyone who wanted a job as a certified nurses aide could just walk in and…

Placing a relative in a nursing home could be one of the most difficult decisions a family member may have to make. When entrusting the care of a beloved elderly family member to a nursing home, one does so with the belief that they will receive top quality care and be treated with the dignity and respect any patient would deserve. However, much of the elderly residing in nursing homes are at particular risk for abuse and neglect. According to the Administration of Aging, elder abuse is a term…

The relationship between quality and competition is theoretically ambiguous in nursing home settings where prices are set by Medicare and Medicaid (Grabowski, Towns, Grabowski, & Town, 2011). However, if prices could be administratively set and greater than marginal cost, greater competition would increase the quality of healthcare (Grabowski, Towns, Grabowski, & Town, 2011). Medicare and Medicaid set the market prices for skilled and long-term care services for semi-private and private beds,…

Jamaica when I retire to avoid nursing home My project to return to Jamaica when I retire to a void nursing home is a god idea because the America is nothing but a business land. Being old and living in Jamaica is not a good idea because everything is so expensive from the food to the nursing homes. To live in a nursing home in America the cost is more than a monthly mortgage when you own a home, but not only that the food that you are being giving in a nursing home is not the best quality, and…

Healthcare Administrator Interview I was really excited to interview a nursing home administrator. Nursing home administration seemed to appeal to me more as the baby-boomer population is going to be living longer and growing. When I was interviewing the nursing home administrator I learned a lot from the experience. The first thing I learned was that it was a very challenging environment. My prior perception was that being a nursing home administrator would be easier than other areas of health…

accepting and discussing this topic. Nursing homes provide the necessary care and treatment that all elderly people need. As the numbers of the elderly community are increasing due to the population of baby boomers, we as a society, need to make sure they are getting the necessary treatment. A multitude of people believe that nursing homes are not meant to be in society, because of the fact that they are not cost efficient, lack of independence, and include nursing home horror stories that…

Synopsis of Bill The Name of the bill is “Nursing Homes: Eliminate Michigan-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines”. The number of the bill is 64 as passed Senate on September 30, 2015. The bill would take effect 90 days after it was enacted into law. The bill would amend the Public Health Code (MCL 333.20155 et al) and delete some requirements of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), such as, developing clinical process guidelines and compliance protocols, training surveyors,…

especially in nursing homes. Nursing homes are frequently facing lawsuits because of harm caused to the nursing home residents by medication errors. Medication error can be an expensive liability for the healthcare members. Article written by Allen (2014),” a study by Medicare’s inspector general of skilled nursing facilities says nearly 22,000 patients were injured and more than 1,500 died in a single month”. This article also published that “one-in-three patients in skilled nursing facilities…

Introduction Plate waste in a nursing home has become a prevalent issue in the resident’s dietary intake served by the food service department. It is estimated that up to seven to thirty percent of the plates were reported as waste at hospital settings and nursing homes (Williams & Walton, 2011; Walton, 2012). Plate waste is associated with resident’s changes in appetite and food preferences, which increases the risk of malnutrition-related complications such as, weight loss, muscle wasting, a…