The Nursing Home Handbook: A Guide to Living Well,9781580622080

The Nursing Home Handbook: A Guide to Living Well

by Davis, Ruth
ISBN13: 9781580622080
ISBN10: 1580622089
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

Discusses important issues to consider when selecting a nursing home, including medical care and treatment, quality of life, costs, and patient rights.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
A Note of Caution xiii
Part One Living Comfortably in a Nursing Home
Let's Begin At The Beginning
How to Read This Book
3(1)
Why Do You Need This Book?
4(1)
Facing Our Fears
5(2)
A Super-Short History of American Nursing Homes
7(1)
We Really Don't Want to, But
8(1)
Just What Is a ``Nursing Home'' Anyway?
9(2)
Choices
Short Stays vs. Long-Term Care
11(2)
Who Should Decide?
13(1)
Home or Away?
14(2)
Questions to Ask About the Need for Placement
16(1)
Why May a Nursing Home Not Be the Best Answer?
17(2)
Where Else You Can Turn
19(2)
Informal Home Care
21(1)
Home Health Care Agencies
21(1)
Assistive or Assisted Living Apartments
22(2)
Adult Day Care Programs
24(1)
Board and Care Facilities
25(1)
Campus Communities
26(1)
Hospice Services at Home
27(1)
Levels of Care
27(1)
The Very Reluctant Resident
28(3)
How To Choose A Nursing Home
Location, Location, Location
31(2)
My Doctor or Yours?
33(1)
Size Is Significant
34(1)
Medicare Means Federal Standards
35(1)
The Profit Motive
35(1)
Private vs. Public Facilities
35(1)
Religious Influences
36(2)
Appearances Are Not Deceiving
38(2)
Follow Your Nose
40(1)
Getting In
41(2)
Dollars And Cents
What Does It Cost?
43(2)
Who Pays the Bill?
45(1)
Why Not Medicare?
46(2)
What About Medicaid?
48(1)
Long-Term Care Insurance
49(1)
Getting Her Money's Worth
50(2)
Billing Issues
52(1)
Comparison Shopping Worksheet
53(2)
Now That She Is A Resident
Great Expectations
55(1)
Reality Checks
55(4)
Feelings
59(1)
A Note to the Alert Resident
60(1)
Helping the Resident Cope With Depression
61(4)
Everyday Life
Familiarity Breeds Contentment
65(1)
The Food
66(4)
Families Can Help with Food Problems
70(1)
The Resident's Room
71(2)
Physical Comforts
73(4)
Living Things Lend Comfort
77(1)
Disappearing Acts
78(2)
Laundry Lore
80(2)
What to Wear
82(3)
``But I'm Bored''
85(1)
What Is Next on the Program?
86(2)
Smoking and Drinking
88(1)
Little Things Mean A Lot
Image Is Everything
89(2)
Social Coaching
91(1)
Privacy
92(3)
Love
95(1)
Staying in Touch
96(3)
Care And Treatment
Conferences, Conferences
99(2)
Restraints
101(2)
Personal Care
103(2)
Eating
105(1)
Bathing
106(1)
Incontinence Care
107(1)
Social Workers
108(3)
Physical Therapy
111(1)
Occupational Therapy
112(1)
Speech Pathology
113(2)
Doctors, Specialists, and Dentists
115(4)
Bruises and Skin Tears
119(1)
Accidents Happen
120(1)
Bedsores Are Bad News
121(1)
Contractures
122(1)
Pain
123(2)
Private Duty Staff
125(4)
Part Two Additional Issues
Families Have Feelings And Needs
Guilt
129(2)
Sadness
131(2)
Resentment
133(1)
Visiting Problems
134(3)
Special Situations
Alzheimer's Disease
137(4)
Psychiatric Illness
141(1)
Personality-Caused Problems
142(1)
AIDS Sufferers
143(2)
Other Younger Residents
145(2)
United We Stand
Power to the Patient
147(3)
Residents Have Rights
150(3)
Who Is in Charge Here Anyway?
153(2)
Partnerships
155(1)
The Powers That Be
155(1)
Maximizing Your Influence
156(2)
When All Else Fails
158(4)
Big Brother Is Watching Them
Quality Assurance Committee
162(1)
State Department of Health
163(5)
Federal and Other Oversight Agencies
168(3)
The Grass Is Greener
Going Home
171(1)
Trying Another Facility
172(5)
Part Three Living the Last Days
Life At Its Ending
Enforcing Patient Wishes
177(4)
The Last Hours
181(1)
Hospice
182(1)
Afterward
183(2)
POSTSCRIPT 185(16)
GLOSSARY: UNDERSTANDING A NEW LANGUAGE
They Sure Do Talk Funny
187(1)
A Layperson's Dictionary
188(13)
Interesting And Useful Additional Reading 201(4)
Index 205

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