Resident Aliens

When I decided to volunteer at the Del Amo Gardens Care Center, I wasn’t quite sure if I was emotionally ready. In March of 2013, my grandpa suffered a very severe stroke. It caused so much damage that it paralyzed half of his body, so we had to put him in a nursing home. Shortly after starting my volunteering, however, any negativity faded away as I was eager to assist with the activities. As I participated, discovered that even though a good amount of these patients suffered some sort of…

addition to activities. Connecting with local Universities would help foster this relationship. Change in menu needs to take place in order to accommodate the baby boomers exposure to a wide variety of ethnic foods during their lifetime. Having residents be more involved in making choices as to what and when to eat will also improve their…

approach to care would produce a more comprehensive assessment and plan of care for the individual. Sometimes this is the case and other times it’s not. It really truly depends on the team members. Recently, we had a discharge planning meeting for a resident at our facility. The resident’s daughter is the Director of Admissions at our facility. Our social worker called her to explain that her father was making very little progress and she did not expect him to be able to return home without…

hated being stuck in a small town with nothing but a gas station, and a rundown donut shop so as you imagine he was ready to get out of here and go to college. One thing that really interested Tom were aliens. Even though no one else in his class thought he was crazy and did not believe in aliens that did not stop Tom. As Tom rolled up to school in his brand new black 2015 Cadillac everyone stood and stared. Coming from a typical family with money that does not stick out to anyone, everyone…

Introduction The purpose of this review is to synthesis the literature pertaining to safe transition of care for older adults with dementia. As the number of adults age 65 and older continues to increase, the prevalence of dementia is expected to rise worldwide. In the United States alone, more than 5 million adults over 65 years old and more than 14% of those over age 70 have dementia (Alzheimer’s Association, 2015). Although dementia is considered a terminal illness (Mitchell, Teno, Kiely,…

in the case of a hard onset of winter. In most cases, mild winters of colder regions help resident birds to survive. They start to use the food resources and breeding/nesting places of long-distance migratory birds. As a consequence, if long-distance migratory birds are coerced into staying in the colder regions, they might find that their breeding grounds have been occupied by resident birds, or the resident birds might not have a breeding grounds at all due to the migratory birds not leaving…

Music has the power to transporting us back to a particular experience, memory, or era without that being its intended purpose. The documentary, Alive Inside, provided a look into how the brain’s reaction to music for nursing home residents with dementia provided an alternative therapy by allowing them to temporarily regain the memories and movement of their younger years. At the suggestion of Dan Cohen, social worker, nursing home volunteer and non-profit organizer of Music & Memory, the film’s…

The assessment needs of the client are based on the need to have medication in a long term nursing setting. The majority of clients that are in a skilled nursing setting need medication, and they cannot take it on their own while they are there. They cannot have medications in their rooms. The nurses or TMAs give the clients their medications when they need them. Many clients rely on the staff that handles the medications to make sure that they are the right medications, the right dose, right…

even disclosed he had recent hallucinations and multiple falls which required them to have a one to one staff member with him while he was in bed and used a restraint to ensure his safety while out of bed. My Director of Nursing (DON) accepted this resident, scheduled the admission for Friday evening and did not inform the nursing staff of his high risk for fall. The nursing staff did receive a report from the SNF but it was too late to discuss whether or not this admission was appropriate for…

Table 1. Understanding of home care and ‘9073’ care combination Concepts Sources Familial care ‘Jiating Yanglao’ Home care ‘Jujia Yanglao’ Community care ‘Shequ Yanglao’ Residential Care Combination Ministry of Civil Affairs in China (policy document) Care exclusively provided by family members Centred on the family, relied on the community, supporting by professional services; Providing socialized services to older people who are living at home to solve their difficulties in daily life;…