Nursing Homes

If you’ve been involved in the care of someone with dementia, you’ve probably faced this moment of truth: Should you always be brutally honest, no matter how hurtful that seems or how little you may be understood, or do you tell a “white lie” or create a deception in the…

Face it: If you’re like most people, when you hear the term “dementia,” you most likely assume the conversation is about Alzheimer’s. But in fact there are a lot of other causes of dementia, some having little to do with the sort of brain plaques and tangles that come from…

It’s a nightmarish thought: the possibility that an older loved one could suffer physical, mental, financial, emotional or sexual abuse while in the care of a trusted individual or facility. But for an astounding 10% of Americans 60 and older, abuse is the humiliating and dangerous reality plaguing their most…

While few people look forward to living in a nursing home, these facilities have nonetheless played an essential role in the spectrum of long-term care options for seniors in our country. For many older people, the severity of their physical health or the lack of family support means they need…

Many of us look for ratings when making choices, and in the nursing home arena, there are rating systems as well. The federal government has a website, Nursing Home Compare, which is a combination of independent analysis and facility-provided info about every Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing home in the US….

When your newborn was alone and asleep at night, you wouldn’t think twice about aiming a live camera on the crib just to monitor what’s going on. But what about aiming a live camera on a nursing home resident who may be impaired and unable to tell you if something…