Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from July 1985

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from July 1985

Antihypertensive drug interactions. (parts 2 and 3) (illustration)
July 1, 1985... Antihypertensive drug interactions may be both beneficial and harmful to the long-term-care patient. Most commonly, antihypertensives are combined for increased therapeutic benefit and minimization of toxicity seen with full doses of single...

Put the "D" back in developing a successful health-care food service. (column)
July 1, 1985... Everyone knows that planning is an important administrative activity. While it is the most basic of management tasks, in many ways it also is the least understood, the most frequently overlooked, and the activity that is most frequently done...

Who may eat and who may starve? (life-support systems and right to die) (column)
July 1, 1985... Right to die Eihical dilemmas in the health field have become media events. Television and newspapers have publicized the bioethical and legal dramas revolving around patients on life-support systems who may be kept "alive" almost...

California law on patients' rights. (column)
July 1, 1985... On March 6 of this year, California Governor George Deukmejian (D) signed into law Assembly Bill 180 as Chapter 10 of 1985. This is a massive agglomeration -- patients' rights enhancements; tougher fines and penalties for deficient homes and...

Armchair fitness.
July 1, 1985... Fitness is the rage. Programs from Jackie Sorenson, Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, and other exercise qurus have jumped, stretched, and sweated their ways into the homes and hearts of America. Now, Betty Switkes has designed for the Manor...

The American nursing home: a novelist's view.
July 1, 1985... The American nursing home, as we all know, is becoming an important segment of the national economy. Certainly we've come a long way from the patterns of the small town in which I grew up. My grandfather, for example, took a walk up the...

Why do long-term-care facilities need computers?
July 1, 1985... Recently, I was in a nursing home, holding a randomly selected medical chart. It was packed full of information including patient history, patient care plan, admitting notes, progress notes, weekly summaries, med sheets, social service notes,...

The generation mix: child care in the nursing home.
July 1, 1985... Introduction Intergenerational programming has received increasing attention from nursing homes, senior centers, and the media. Most of the programs, such as Adopt-a-Grandparent, bring together the young and old on a regular,...

Selection of equipment based on a controlled trial.
July 1, 1985... One of the important decisions that a nursing home or hospital administrator frequently makes relates to the selection of institutional equipment. The administrator cannot simply accept a salesperson's claims for the product's features, but...

The nursing home as a community education resource.
July 1, 1985... Acute-care agencies have been in the business of community education for several years, with a focus on the quality of good health and prevention of illness. Traditionally, nursing homes have not been viewed as resources for educational...

Disability, theatre, and education.
July 1, 1985... An author once said, "It's nice to hear someone say, 'I saw a review of your book' or 'I enjoyed your book at the library,' but best of all it's to hear, 'I bought your book!" I was so impressed with my review copy of "Disability, Theatre and...