Author: Elizabeth C. ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregate housing
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Amended Assisted Living Residence Operators Guidance and Policies and Procedures to Protect Residents, Facilities, and Services During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Elizabeth C. ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregate housing
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309132746
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Guidelines for Design and Construction of Residential Health, Care, and Support Facilities
Author: Facility Guidelines InstitutePublisher:
ISBN: 9780999135525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Standards to guide the design and construction of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living settings, and related outbased service facilities, including adult day care
Guidelines for Nursing Homes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Memorandum: Guidance for Assisted Living Residences (ALRs) During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Elizabeth C. ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Instructions to Surveyors
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Load-line
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
American Eldercide
Author: Margaret Morganroth GullettePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226827771
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A bracing spotlight on the avoidable causes of the COVID-19 Eldercide in the United States. Twenty percent of the Americans who have died of COVID since 2020 have been older and disabled adults residing in nursing homes—even though they make up fewer than one percent of the US population. Something about this catastrophic loss of life in government-monitored facilities has never added up. Until now. In American Eldercide, activist and scholar Margaret Morganroth Gullette investigates this tragic public health crisis with a passionate voice and razor-sharp attention to detail, showing us that nothing about it was inevitable. By unpacking the decisions that led to discrimination against nursing home residents, revealing how governments, doctors, and media reinforced ageist or ableist biases, and collecting the previously little-heard voices of the residents who survived, Gullette helps us understand the workings of what she persuasively calls an eldercide. Gullette argues that it was our collective indifference, fueled by the heightened ageism of the COVID-19 era, that prematurely killed this vulnerable population. Compounding that deadly indifference is our own panic about aging and a social bias in favor of youth-based decisions about lifesaving care. The compassion this country failed to muster for the residents of our nursing facilities motivated Gullette to pen an act of remembrance, issuing a call for pro-aging changes in policy and culture that would improve long-term care for everyone.
Memorandum: Updated Guidance for Assisted Living Residences (ALRs) During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Author: Elizabeth C. ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175704
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnelâ€"and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.
Infection Control Guidelines for Long-term Care Facilities
Author: Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (Canada)Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The first Infection control guidelines for long-term care facilities were published in 1986. Since that time the interest in, and knowledge of, the requirements of infection control programs for long-term care facilities has steadily increased. This document presents the second version and looks at the following points: organizational structure of an infection control program; environmental concerns; departments and services; management of specific care situations; occupational health; and, epidemic investigation and control.