Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from May 1988

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from May 1988

Lack of recognition and treatment of active problems in geriatric nursing home patients. (column)
May 1, 1988... Abstract The underrecognition and lack of treatment of active problems in a 72-bed nursing home over a two-year period was studied. Forty-seven cases of therapeutic need without treatment or dosage-schedule change needed were identified...

Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past.
May 1, 1988... BEYOND SIXTY-FIVE: The Dilemma of Old Age In America's Past. By Carole Haber, PhD. Cambridge University Press, 32 East 57th St., New York, NY 10022. Paperback $8.95 The author of "Beyond Sixty-five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's...

Drug-testing in the nursing home. (column)
May 1, 1988... It does not take a keen observer to know that drug abuse, a major American problem, extends to the workplace. Nursing home owners have reasons to be particularly concerned. First of all, nursing homes have pharmacies that may contain drugs...

Waiting for beds. (discharging hospital patients to nursing homes) (column)
May 1, 1988... If quicker's sicker, is longer stronger? The former rhyme has been used to castigate the Reagan administration and the HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration) for policies favoring early discharge of elderly hospital patients. "Quicker...

Sleep and Aging: A Research-Based Guide to Sleep in Later Life.
May 1, 1988... SLEEP AND AGING: A Research-Based Guide to Sleep in Later Life. By Dr. Kevin Morgan, MD. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 151 pp. $27.50 Though the subject has long been a subject of comment and wonder, it is only in the...

HCFA cooperation on regulations sought. (Health Care Financing Administration)
May 1, 1988... In a February 10 letter, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform Executive Director Elma L. Holder, backed by about 60 organizations, urged U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Otis R. Bowen to adjust regulatory...

Seattle homes open to AIDS patients.
May 1, 1988... In Washington State last fall, AIDS patients and their kin filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) . They contended that 42 nursing homes, about half the total in King County...

A suit on reimbursement policy.
May 1, 1988... Meanwhile, a group of 11 Washington State nursing homes themselves went to court in late November. They sued the state. They challenged the system by which the state reimburses nursing homes for the lower of: (1) costs for the previous...

National Health Council studies long-term-care financing.
May 1, 1988... Governor Gloom's still at it. Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm (D), now a professor at Denver University, held forth during the National Health Council forum in Philadelphia March 28-29. He boiled down the message previously recounted...

The swallows.
May 1, 1988... The tires of her car bounced gently as mom turned off the main street and into the driveway of our house. We were returning after having spent three glorious days at the coast. It had been an easy drive. It wasn't too hot and we both were...

Geriatric nutrition: an educational program for long-term-care staff.
May 1, 1988... The degree to which nutritional needs are met has significant effects on the elderly resident's health and well-being. Inadequate nutrition often is a major con tributing factor to the problems experienced by residents, including...

Strategies for promoting positive behaviors of staff in nursing homes.
May 1, 1988... Discussions held in 15 cities involving 455 nursing home residents elicited their views on quality of care. When asked what constitutes quality care and which factor is most important in creating a good nursing home environment, residents...

An act of love. (nursing home patient and daughter)
May 1, 1988... The ambulance and small car arrived simultaneously at the serenely landscaped nursing home. Attendants moved quickly and efficiently to remove the stretcher bearing the elderly lady from the vehicle. The young woman from the accompanying...

Drug reaction vs. physical condition in the elderly: solving the puzzle.
May 1, 1988... P Residents in extended-care facilities often have multiple physical conditions for which multiple medications are prescribed. In addition, drugs are given for constipation, diarrhea, sleep, or pain. Either physical illnesses or...

Long-term-care insurance revisited.
May 1, 1988... After a year of protection under the umbrella of long-term-care insurance, my wife and I feel comfortable, reassured that benefits will remain in place and that there is yet another tie that binds us to our continued care retirement community...

Issues concerning the right to die.
May 1, 1988... All competent adult human beings, because of their innate right of self-determination, have the right to die as they choose under the protection of the law.' Self-determination is defined as the right to make the ultimate decision concerning...

A plan to improve group call coverage for nursing homes.
May 1, 1988... Medical coverage for a nursing home traditionally has been provided by a single physician. In that situation, whenever a patient has a problem that needs to be addressed, a nurse can count on discussing the case over the phone with a...