Nursing homes

benefits of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This issue has been proven to very controversial. I plan to explain the overall benefits of certain elderly care in my paper, product, and portfolio. First, I started with my letter of intent. My letter of intent explains my topic and why I chose it. I also explained what my product will consist of. Then, I began to search for sources. I recorded my sources on a works cited page. In late September, I went to Davis Nursing Home Community…

Their Only Choice: Daily Struggles of Living in a Nursing Home You hear it all time older adults telling their children, “don’t you ever put me in a nursing home” because over the years, nursing homes have acquired bad reputations for the action of those employed there. Nursing homes should not be as dreadful as people make it seem. These should be places where the elderly are able to go and live out their final life moments in peace and serenity. Instead there are incidents all over the nation…

DATE I visit the Coliseum Park Nursing Home which is also called the Virginia Rehabilitation Center on October 27, 2015. LOCATION The location of the Coliseum Park Nursing Home is 305 Marcella Road in Hampton, Virginia. ASSISTANCE I assist with an activity with the senior citizens and assist the senior citizen to their rooms at my visit of the Coliseum Park Nursing Home. The Recreation Director, Deborah Adams gather the residents in a small room that was next to the dining room. We were going to…

Our textbook describes a grim picture of nursing homes. There are some sugar nursing homes operating in the United States, and they should be closed. There are many high quality nursing homes around the country in which older people thrive and not only live there. There are qualities that make nursing homes to be at a “gold standard.” “Qualities of housing and neighborhood gain saliency as age-related decrements in sensory-motor processes, strength and endurance, and health, financial, and…

Golden living nursing home on a warm Saturday afternoon. I interviewed him at a nursing office to maintain privacy and confidentiality. In order to make him feel comfortable and share some personal information with me, I asked about his favorite vacation locations. He did not have any because he did not go on vacations…

ACCOUNTING AND BUDGETING It is imperative that a nursing home Administrator understands the concept of accounting and budgeting. The Administrator must have a thorough understanding of the financial process. While the decision-making processes of nursing home administrators tend to revolve around the needs of senior residents, they must also balance the needs of personnel to be equally effective. Nursing home administrators also take charge of the financial aspects of their facilities by…

round of vitals on each tiny patient, updating health profiles, and getting prepared for new arrivals to the NICU. Today came as a relief escaping the bleak hospital halls for the comfort of home, no more monitors, tests, or paperwork. Bringing my precious baby home after forty-four days was long awaited; once home I would begin to understand how motherhood would forever change me. Constant bells ringing and beeping along with alarms that sound like sirens were the music of the unit. My now…

An assisted living facility, or nursing home, is a long term senior care option that provides personal care services to geriatric or injured patients. Assisted living communities provide basic medical monitoring as well as activities of daily living (ADLs). For this field work assignment, I visited ManorCare Health Services, an assisted living and rehab facility located in Towson, MD. This specific location specializes in ensuring vital medical care and rehabilitation in a warm and caring…

of or need assistance due to elderly age or a disability. Nursing homes are places where these individuals go when they aren’t able to take care of themselves. In the YouTube video "Facing Death" it shows that hospitals is a place of life and death. Unfortunately, nursing homes are also places where patients, staff and caregivers face death everyday. Staff and caregivers must be prepared when a death occurs in a nursing home. Nursing home rules for any death includes speaking to the patients…

There are many various reasons as to why one would be in a Nursing home and because of all the reasons it can lead to causing falls. Many of these falls can lead to injury and even death; there are different measures used and put in place to try to prevent this. Some of the reasons that these falls occur are due to muscle weakness, walking and gait problems, environmental hazards, such as poor lighting or wet floors, medications, and transferring with improper equipment and foot wear (CDC,…