Finding your parents, or helping them find, a nursing home is a huge responsibility. You’ll want to make sure they land in just the right place — one that fulfills the needs for their care and where the staff treats them with respect. Given Florida’s large population...
Resident-to-resident abuse is a lesser-known form of elder abuse in nursing homes, but one could argue that this form is more troubling due to its obscurity. Resident-to-resident abuse is a concern for individuals with parents or family members in long-term care...
When your parents go into a nursing home facility, you trust the nurses and staff to provide them with proper care and treatment. Along with that care is ensuring they receive the medication they need to stay healthy and comfortable. Unfortunately, some workers may...
Nursing homes are environments that have multiple, at-risk individuals who may have compromised immune systems due to age or other pre-existing medical conditions. In other words, nursing homes and similar facilities are a perfect environment for the spread of...
Your loved one has developed Alzheimer’s disease, and you know that it is only a matter of time before they’ll need to be in a nursing home. One thing you should start looking into now is a memory care unit. Unlike a traditional nursing home, a memory care-focused...
Bedsores (which are often called “pressure ulcers” by those in the medical field) are basically skin wounds caused by nothing more than repeated pressure and force against the body — often from the victim’s own body. They typically occur anywhere that a patient’s body...
Nursing home residents often have underlying health conditions, some of which impact the immune system. Because of this and the fact that these residents live in close quarters, infection control must be a priority in these facilities. According to News4Jax, there...
People with advanced-stage Alzheimer’s disease often can’t take care of even the most basic self-maintenance. For those that need assistance in their feedings, choking risks plus the loss of cognitive function might mean that a patient needs meticulous personalized...
A series of bills moving through Florida’s State Legislature may mean cutbacks in the oversight of nursing home facilities, including those with worst violations. The Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA) is responsible for increasing oversight inspections of...
Coronavirus is all over the news, and with good reason. Patients are dying from this respiratory illness. One set of cases in another state might have some individuals in Florida concerned. In Washington, many victims of this viral illness were residents at a nursing...
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