Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from September 1985

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from September 1985

For profit food service management companies: the big ones aren't the only ones.
September 1, 1985... For Profit Foodservice Management Companies: The Big Ones Aren't the Only Ones Health-care administrators recognize the significant costs incurred by their facilities to operate dietary services. There is little news in the fact dietary...

Should we enact "Death with Dignity" legislation or "Natural Death" acts?
September 1, 1985... Should We Enact "Death with Dignity" Legislation or "Natural Death" Acts? A new concept The right to die, death with dignity, legal death, the living will, euthanasia, and death selection today are as much in the news limelight as...

Anticoagulant drug interactions. (part 1)
September 1, 1985... Anticoagulant Drug Interactions: Part I Anticoagulants, or blood thinners, may be employed in the long-term-care facility patient for prevention of deep vein thrombosis, prophylaxis of clotting in patients with atrial fibrillation in which...

Equalizing private and Medicaid rates.
September 1, 1985... Equalizing Private and Medicaid Rates The idea that private-pay patients should not be charged more than Medicaid patients at facilities participating in Medicaid has, as far as we know, gained but a single firm toehold among the states:...

Handbook of innovative programs for the impaired elderly.
September 1, 1985... HANDBOOK OF INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS FOR THE IMPAIRED ELDERLY How to improve the quality of life for long-term nursing home patients is the concern of this book, which helps nursing home personnel better deal with the physical, social, and...

WHO's global program for health of the elderly.
September 1, 1985... WHO's Global Program for Health of the Elderly GENEVA, Switzerland--There are more than 376 million people in the world aged 60 or above, according to the World Health Organization, and their number is expected to rise to 590 million by the...

Alzheimer special-care nursing home units.
September 1, 1985... Alzheimer Special-Care Nursing Home Units Chronic dementing syndromes of one type or another are present today in an estimated 50 to 70 percent of residents in nursing homes and extended care facilities. The incidence of dementia increases...

Creative arts with older adults: a sourcebook.
September 1, 1985... CREATIVE ARTS WITH OLDER ADULTS: A SOURCEBOOK. As editors Naida Weisberg and Rosilyn Wilder aptly point out in the preface to "Creative Arts with Older Adults," "Creative arts services can make a measurable contribution in enabling the aging...

Lippincott's nurses' drug manual.
September 1, 1985... LIPPINCOTT'S NURSES' DRUG MANUAL. This very comprehensive manual belongs in the library or on the shelves of pharmacy departments in every nursing home. Detailing clinical information for over 800 drugs, the book contains a full-color...

Line and staff relationships in long-term care.
September 1, 1985... Line and Staff Relationships In Long-Term Care Long-term-care facilities are seeing new organizational relationships that have developed over the last 10 years. Such relationships will become more and more demanding with the acquisition of...

Theft in hospitals and nursing homes.
September 1, 1985... THEFT IN HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES Seldom does a book come along that addresses a "new" or "untouched" topic. Luckily for nursing home decision makers, just such a book has finally arrived. "Theft In Hospitals and Nursing Homes" claims...