Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from November 1988

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from November 1988

Employees create your best- or worst-advertising. (editorial)
November 1, 1988... Consumer experts tell us that the best advertising is provided by satisfied customers. They al that, on average, people tend to comment on a bad experience almost four times more often than on a good one. Case in point. After my father...

Late entries. (bills dealing with elderly care and related news) (column)
November 1, 1988... Your conscientious U.S. Representatives and Senators continued to introduce legislation up to the very end of the 100th Congress. Why, since there is no time to enact a bill introduced two months before session's end? One can explain a late...

Routine laboratory tests: helpful or just costly? (column)
November 1, 1988... Abstract The appropriate utilization of laboratory tests was studied by a consultant pharmacist in a 72-bed geriatric nursing home over a two-year period. There was a general underutilization of drug levels to detect digoxin, phenytoin,...

Overly favorable contracts may be overturned in court. (column)
November 1, 1988... Law school contracts professors like to remind their students that an oral contract isn't worth the paper it's not printed on. It is only prudent that nursing homes have a written contract with new patients. And although it may be tempting...

Dr. Otis Bowen reflects on his service with HHS. (Health and Human Services)
November 1, 1988... The aging of the baby-boomers is at hand, wamed Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, in a recent interview with Nursing Homes Publisher John Kusik, and Government Editor R. Bruce Gebhardt. Besides the statistically...

Enhancing the health of COPD client. (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
November 1, 1988... The chronic obstructive lung diseases - emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthma - are some of the most common respiratory diseases. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by airflow limitation, loss of the elastic...

Through aged eyes; memories and visitors aid the elderly to see beyond the mists of time.
November 1, 1988... In the quiet of her nursing home, an other day is just beginning. Sunlight strikes the handle of her wheelchair, giving her hand a peculiar glow. She sees every vein through the transparency of the skin as she holds the handle tightly. Her...

Obtaining prior directives eases burden on family, staff.
November 1, 1988... The dread of "being kept alive" is a preoccupation of many elderly Americans "Let me die, I don't want to be a burden to my family," and "I want to have a natural death. No machines ! " are pleas often heard from residents of nursing homes....

Behind the initials. (AAHA or AHCA, nursing home associations) (Family Matters)
November 1, 1988... I want to share with you some information that may give greater insight into the workings of the "front office," which provides the leadership and direction for your loved one's nursing home. At the entrance to the nursing home, you may...

Life too important to take seriously, says humor advocate Lila Green. (Family Matters)
November 1, 1988... Lila Green is a very funny lady who is quite serious about one thing - promoting the use of humor to improve the quality of life in the long-term health care setting. At the AAHA Annual Meeting in Orlando, Lila, a program coordinator...

Alternatives and options for financing long-term care.
November 1, 1988... To the average citizen, no health issue could be of less interest - yet be so significant to his security in later life - - than long-term-care needs. Today's existing system throughout the field is fragmented and incomplete, indicating the...

The cake in room 31; nursing homes are seen as a wellspring of oral tradition.
November 1, 1988... She was 87 and the last of ten children when she moved into the nursing home. My sister and I were our aunt's only family near enough to visit her. Our visits soon introduced us to her new home which some characterized as dull and...