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Nursing Home Checklist: Touring

February 1st, 2008 by Gilbert Guide

Not sure what to look for when touring a nursing home? Wish you had someone to show you how? Gilbert Guide has worked with experts to develop an easy-to-use checklist of what you need to pay attention to when touring a nursing home. Download our Nursing Home Checklist: Touring. The file is in a pdf format. You will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader® if you do not have it installed on your computer. (Don’t worry; it’s free, safe...Read the rest of this article »

Nursing Home Residents’ Rights

January 7th, 2008 by Gilbert Guide

Nursing home residents have rights and protections guaranteed by the 1987 Nursing Home Reform law which requires facilities to "promote and protect the rights of each resident." Skilled nursing facilities must place a strong emphasis on self-determination and individual dignity and must meet reform law requirements in order to participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Individuals living in nursing home facilities maintain the same rights as those who live in the larger community. It is necessitated that resident's rights are to...Read the rest of this article »

Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes—No Pros but Tons of Convicts

May 2nd, 2007 by Lori Deschene

Do the meals taste like hospital food? Does the staff-to-patient ratio allow for enough individualized attention? Is your loved one’s roommate a known sex offender? Most likely, that last question wouldn’t cross your mind when considering a nursing home for your loved one—but if you don’t ask it, you may regret it. In 2005, A Perfect Cause—an agency that advocates for the rights of disabled and elderly individuals—went before Congress to address the issue of sex offenders in long-term...Read the rest of this article »

Waking the Dead to Prove Abuse—Is Exhumation Ethical?

April 8th, 2007 by Lori Deschene

Virginia Cole died at Woodstock Residence Nursing Home in Illinois on Sept. 10, 2006. She was 78 years old. Although afflicted with Alzheimer’s, Cole was in good overall health according to Steven Levin, her family’s attorney. After a former Woodstock Residence employee made claims that a colleague administered lethal doses of morphine to residents, Illinois State Police spearheaded an investigation into the nursing home. Cole’s children, Vickie Lund and Kevin Cole, had no idea their mother’s death was suspicious...Read the rest of this article »

Sex in Nursing Homes—The Debate Continues

March 23rd, 2007 by Lara Belonogoff

Do senior care and sex make for strange bedfellows? Well, perhaps not. A few months ago, I attended an Alzheimer’s Association conference where one of the seminars dealt with issues surrounding sexuality and dementia. Many of the seminar participants had partners who had been diagnosed with dementia and eventually moved into a facility. A complaint that surfaced numerous times during the discussion was how nursing homes inherently do not allow for privacy: doors don’t lock and rooms are often...Read the rest of this article »

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