When you have loved ones that are critically ill it causes a lot of stress on the entire family. Making the decision to place someone you love in a nursing home can be a painful experience. However, finding a suitable nursing home doesn’t have to be difficult. There are numerous options out there, and a lot of resources that are designed to help you choose an option that everyone in your family is comfortable with.
- Situation Critical: A four –part blog series detailing the process of finding a nursing home for your loved one.
- Easing the Elder Care Burden: Learn about three tips that will help you adjust to your loved one living in a nursing home.
- Patient – Provider Communication: Learn how to communicate with the nursing home employees, and how effective communication can help your loved one.
- Nursing Homes Spend Thousands on Private Ambulance Services: Learn about how much money nursing homes in New York are spending on private ambulance services, and how it’s affecting your monthly payment.
- Are Costs Higher for In-Home Care, Nursing Homes or Assisted Living: Learn how costs are rising for in-home care, and why a nursing home or assisted living facility may be your best bet.
- Deciphering the Insurance Puzzle: What exactly does your insurance cover, and how much of the nursing home expenses will you be left to pay?
- Who will care for the critically ill and disabled: Learn exactly how much of a nursing home stay Medicaid covers, and why you may be left with a hefty bill.
- Medical and Nursing Home Errors: Learn about things that happen in a nursing home that should never happen.
- When should Dad go to the nursing home? Determining when is the right time for a home.
- An Ignored Threat To Patient Health: Why you should ensure that the home you chooses has excellent dental care.
- Illinois Governor Signs Legislation Targeting Elder Financial Abuse: Learn to spot nursing homes that may be taking the patient’s money.
- Modify Your Home To Reduce Elder Adult Falls: Simple home modifications may keep your loved one at your home instead of a nursing home.
- Choosing the Best Care for Your Loved Ones: Make sure you know how to choose the proper nursing home for your loved one.
- Nursing Home Care: Exactly how well do nursing homes care for patients?
- Security Cameras for Nursing Homes and Elder Care Facilities: Why security cameras are needed in a nursing home.
- Advocates for elderly say Illinois nursing home reforms would make facilities safer: Find out what’s wrong with Illinois nursing homes that are cause advocates to insist on a nursing home reform.
- Nursing Homes to Get 1.7% Medicare Payment Increase: Discover how a Medicare increase helps nursing homes.
- Tips On How to Choose The Right Nursing Home: Learn what you need to do to choose the right nursing home for your family member.
- Medicare Nursing Home Penalties Could Fund Direct-Care Training: Penalties that are paid when a nursing home violates a Medicare regulation could be used to advance employees training; how this affects you.
- Home Care Budget Cuts Hurt the Elderly: Learn how budget will affect the care in nursing homes.
- Forget Jail, Forget Nursing Homes, Take a Cruise: An article that compares the cost of staying in a nursing home to that of staying on a cruise ship.
- If Nursing Home Isn’t an Option, Try Jail: Learn how it’s easier for elderly prisoners to re-enter prison than live in a nursing home.
- Alternative to a Nursing Home: What alternatives are there to nursing homes?
- 15 Percent Funding Cut Hits Nursing Homes Hard: Learn how a budget cut effects your loved one, so you can make a decision on whether or not a nursing home is right for them.
- The Future of Nursing Homes Are in Jeopardy: Learn why the future of nursing homes are in danger.
- Pennsylvania Families Need to Watch for Nursing Home Negligence: Learn what really goes on in nursing homes and how the budget cuts may have a negative impact on the care your loved one received.
- A Nursing Home That’s Actually a Home: An article that discusses a nursing home that actually feels more like a home.
- Why You Should Ask About Utilities in the Home You Choose: Article about air conditioning issues in a Baltimore nursing home, and how they could have been deadly if not for a patient.
- Guide to the Patient Trust and Medicare Bonds: Learn how Medicare bonds help ensure your loved one isn’t a victim of a nursing home fraud.
- Contractures Are a Form of Nursing Home Abuse: Article that discusses what contractures are and why they should be considered absuse.
- Nursing Home Evictions: What does it take to be evicted from a nursing home, and what you should do if it happens.
- Nursing Home Independent Informal Dispute Resolution Process: Why the dispute process is important and how you can file your own dispute.
- Holes in Background Checks for Nursing Home Employees: An article about nursing homes in Kentucky that have problems with employee background checks. Could felons be caring for your loved one?
- Nursing Home Receive Adequate Supervision: Learn about how a federal regulation ensures that nursing homes receive better supervision to help prevent accidents.
- State Budget Shortfalls Mean Medicaid Program Cuts: Cuts in the Medicaid budget means lack of programs for the elderly living in nursing homes.
- Understanding Nursing Home Regulations: Making sure you understand the regulations a nursing home has to follow helps ensure your loved one doesn’t fall victim to abuse.
- New, Tougher Regulations Nursing Homes: Tougher regulations for Illinois nursing homes increase the quality of care.
- NCLE Expands Elder Law Program: The program that advocates for the elderly is expanded, meaning better care for your loved one.
- ACA Nursing Home CMP Provisions: Learn about Medicare and Medicaid reforms and how they will affect nursing home care.
- Fact Sheets Home Health Care: Learn about home health care before you determine that a nursing home is the right choice.
- Nursing Home Medicaid Requirements: Nursing homes are required to follow Medicaid regulations, make sure you know them so you can ensure the home you choose plays by the rules.
- Nursing Home Questions: Questions you should be asking the nursing homes you are considering.
- An Exploration of Nursing Home Organizational Processes: Learn the organizational process of a nursing home so you know who to go to with your questions or concerns.
- First Person Story: Finding a Nursing Home During a Crisis: One person’s account on finding the right nursing home during a crisis.
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