Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from May 1985

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from May 1985

By their food service ye shall know them. (Dietary Managers Association) (column)
May 1, 1985... Food makes a statement. Whether it is an elegant, expensive restaurant or a college-campus ice cream parlor, food tells customers how an organization feels about them. Sometimes the message is positive, sometimes negative. Sometimes food...

Competitive strategy for health-care organizations.
May 1, 1985... Don't be scared by the title, but do expect hard reading. If you can read it easily, you don't need it except as a review or update. If, however, you haven't had a post-graduate course in management and can't afford one, then get this book....

Helping patients and their families cope with medical problems.
May 1, 1985... Edited by Howard B. Rohback, PhD, professor in psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, is a very comprehensive and well-researched book. Caring for the psychological needs of both the medical patient and his family cannot be overemphasized for...

Financial control and regulation among nursing homes.
May 1, 1985... It is not uncommon to hear vigorous complaints about the excessive amount of regulation that is present in the nursing home field. Such regulation has traditionally placed many constraints on the financial management of nursing homes. And now,...

Communications problems of the elderly: a survey.
May 1, 1985... Abstract A survey of communications problems among elderly persons was conducted to determine the perceived incidence, the number of agencies that provide various services, provision/nonprovision of speech and hearing services, and need...

A nursing unit designed for Alzheimer's disease patients at Newton Presbyterian Manor.
May 1, 1985... A national campaign has drawn attention to the plight of victims of Alzheimer's disease. Throughout the country, nursing homes have begun residential and day-care programs to serve the needs of Alzheimer's patients during the most frustrating...

Chronicle of a scandal. (negligence case of Dr. Antonio De Marchi)
May 1, 1985... LUGANO, SWITZERLAND--Swiss medical care is justly famed as being among the best in Europe--and that includes nursing homes. So the result of a recent court case here, in which the former head of a Lugano nursing home and three of his staff...

Wednesdays are sunshine days. (nursing-home patient narrative)
May 1, 1985... I am totally convinced that Madge Mulligan, even at the age of 87, was destined to meet Miss Davies. Miss Davies was our director of nursing in the progressive nursing home where I worked part-time to supplement an ongoing educational expense....

Cheshire Homes help younger long-term health-care population.
May 1, 1985... Well-architected to match its semirural setting, the three-year old-Cheshire home in New Jersey is North America's clearest evidence to date of the growing influence throughout the world of a health-care style that originated in Great Britain...

Home or nursing home? (nursing home resident speaks out)
May 1, 1985... Home or nursing home? is the question that members of thousands of families have to face sooner or later, and it is one to which there are no easy answers. Medical science has greatly increased the quantity of years of life without always...

Working on family trees: a form of resident therapy.
May 1, 1985... "Patients always go downhill when they enter nursing homes," said an acquaintance of mine when he visited his mother in her nursing home. "What does she do with her time?" I asked, recalling her previous varied activities, which had kept...

Nutrition assessment: a comprehensive guide for planning intervention.
May 1, 1985... Within the past 20 years, nursing home personnel have become increasingly concerned about clinical nutrition assessment. In this book, "Nutrition Assessment: A Comprehensive Guide for Planning Intervention," Margaret D. Simko, Catherine...