Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from January 1988

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from January 1988

Reduction of irrational drug duplication in geriatric nursing homes. (column)
January 1, 1988... by James W. Cooper, Pharm. PhD, FCP Abstract The reduction of irrational drug duplication by rigorous drug regimen review, in-service education, and physician acceptance of consultant pharmacist recommendations in a 72-bed...

Fraud and abuse under Medicare and Medicaid. (column)
January 1, 1988... by Kenneth May The image that many Americans have of lawyers is based on Perry Mason. His life, the life of a criminal lawyer, is exciting and glamorous. The guilty party always breaks down at the crucial moment, and justice always...

Medicare and Extended Care: Issues, Problems, and Prospects.
January 1, 1988... MEDICARE AND EXTENDED CARE: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. By Bruce C. Vladeck and Genrose J. Alfanto. National Health Publishing. Owing Mills, MD. 180 pp. $34 by Thornal G. Oliver, MHA, FACHA, and Pauline R. Oliver, MSPH, RNC...

Insurance to become more expensive, harder to find. (includes other health care news) (column)
January 1, 1988... by R. Bruce Gebhardt As of the end of November, we hadn't seen that warning anywhere else. Sorry to deliver the bad news. How does this columnist know? A week or so after the stock market plunge in October, stories appeared about the...

Caretaker's perception of respite care. (survey of a nursing care unit of a veteran medical center)
January 1, 1988... by Lou Etta Hicks, MSN, ARNP, and Irene DeFilipo, BA, RNC With the high cost of institutionalization, more people are trying to keep their loved ones at home. However, caring for the dependent family member on a continuous basis can be...

Interacting with the deaf.
January 1, 1988... by Jess Freeman King, EdD The nursing home administrator's role Certainly this situation has occurred countless times and will most assuredly occur again: The nursing home administrator and his staff are given the direct...

Administrative transition: a commonsense model for smoothing the process.
January 1, 1988... by Michael J. Riemann, MBA In an organization such as a skilled nursing facility, leadership transition is inevitable; that is, at some point there surely will be a change of administrator. When that situation occurs the result often is...

Alzheimer's disease, "a 1980's concept for senility"?
January 1, 1988... by T. Edwin Boling, PhD, and Kathy Sommers, BA, CFACHCA Abstract This paper challenges the common statement that 50 to 60 percent of the residents of nursing homes are Alzheimer's victims. A study of nursing homes in Ohio found...

Dissolving an asbestos nightmare.
January 1, 1988... by Phil Pekron, MPH, CIH, CSP If you own or manage a building, especially an older one, the specter of asbestos has loomed above you for a long time. Long before the federal government declared asbestos a hazardous substance, those...

Why people go into nursing homes. (1985 National Nursing Home Survey)
January 1, 1988... The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released a report of a survey of 4,646 nursing home residents that aimed to determine why they entered them. Data came ftom the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS). Most of its...

Banana bonanza. (nutritional value)
January 1, 1988... by Evelyn Witter Banana, that monocotyledonous herb that has been in cultivation since the beginning of written history, can be a bonanza of thrifty, delicious healthgiving food if you understand it and know what to do with it. ...

Don't be afraid of children's projects. (children's involvement in nursing homes)
January 1, 1988... by Grace Paul "Children have no place in a nursing home," said an aide when she was told that 20 children were coming to visit residents. One teacher brought third-graders, and each was introduced to a resident. They were...

Providing professional nursing care in nursing homes: a dilemma.
January 1, 1988... by Ngozi 0. Nkongho, PhD, RN The need for nursing homes is apparent. Both the increasing number of elderly and those requiring home-care services that cannot be provided in the acute-care setting are increasing. The quality of care...

Yes, sir, that's the magic word! ('involvement,' Halloween party in a nursing home)
January 1, 1988... by Ann Champeau A long, skinny red devil, unaware that his tail was bouncing gymnastically, stopped at re first door and, holding his sack in front of him, called out, "Trick or treat." Impatiently, he waited for the wrinkled,...