Long-term care for aging parents is one of the most difficult, expensive and frustrating issues facing American families today. Newly revised and updated, this handbook was prepared by the leading organization advocating better conditions and care for nursing home residents. It helps readers select and work with nursing homes, offering proven procedures developed by effective advocates nationwide. Includes many strategies for protecting patient rights to aid families in insuring quality care for loved ones.
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NURSING HOMES You Can Get Good Care There!
You want the best possible care for your loved one who lives in a nursing home -- and this consumer action guide will help you get it. You'll find dozens of specific strategies in this book, including questions to ask, checklists, standards of care, detailed examples, patient's rights.
An essential resource for caring families and patient advocates!
"Good nursing home care definitely exists, but you have to know where to look and how to look. This book is a valuable tool for consumers seeking quality nursing home care." --U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley (Iowa)
"While we all hope that nursing homes will take care of our loved ones the way we would if we could, experience shows that getting good care really depends on us -- family members and close friends. This new edition of this highly acclaimed book provides the information we all need to recognize problems when they occur, learn what quality care is and what's required by law, and identify people and organizations that can help us. Everyone with a family member or close friend in a nursing home should have NURSING HOMES: GETTING GOOD CARE THERE." --Bill Novelli, Executive Director and CEO, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
"This book, in its direct, easy-to-read style, will help families and friends of persons in nursing homes to understand what makes good care, and the laws that support it. Fully informed customers can build a partnership with nursing home staff which helps everybody." --T. Franklin Williams, M.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus; Former Director, National Institute on Aging
"I love this book! Carefully constructed stories... excellent and practical problem solving. The authors are on the front line of nursing home reform -- one-on-one, resident by resident." --A. Frank Johns, Esq., National Association of Elder Law Attorneys
SARAH GREENE BURGER, R.N., M.P.H., is Executive Director and consultant for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the only national consumer advocacy organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life and care in long-term care institutions. VIRGINIA FRASER, M.A., was the State Ombudsman in Colorado for 21 years. SARA HUNT, M.S.S.W., is a consultant and former state long-term care ombudsman. BARBARA FRANK, M.S., M.P.A., is Director of Health Policy for the Massachusetts office of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute.
About the Author
SARAH GREENE BURGER, R.N., M.P.H., is Executive Director and consultant for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the only national consumer advocacy organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life and care in long-term care institutions.
VIRGINIA FRASER, M.A., was the State Ombudsman in Colorado for 21 years.
SARA HUNT, M.S.S.W., is a consultant and former state long-term care ombudsman.
BARBARA FRANK, M.S., M.P.A., is Director of Health Policy for the Massachusetts office of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute.
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My husband bought this book for a relative. The relative says the book really helped her understand her rights and how to interact more effectively with the nursing home staff.
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Long-term care is most always a crisis when it happens and decisions have to be made in such a short period of time. With the advent of the internet and community resources to draw upon, most people mange the best they can. I was introduced to this book some 5 years ago when volunteering as a Certified Long-term care Ombudsman. It's now in it's Second Edition. A must read for anyone admitting and overseeing the care of a loved one.
Bill McCool Columbus, OH
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A valuable resource for health care consumers,
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I am a registered nurse with past long-term care experience (I was a nursing assistant before becoming an RN) and family member of a nursing home resident. I believe this book hits the mark as a helpful guide to consumers of nursing home care and their families. It helps readers to understand the rights of nursing home residents, and what steps to take to be sure those are honored. It is clearly written and provides lots of practical guidance. In short, I think anyone who anticipates the need for services of a long-term care facility, or whose family member is already a nursing home resident, should get this book. Nursing home residents need advocates, and family members who are well informed can better act on their loved ones' behalf. Some wonderful initiatives are underway to make nursing homes better places to live; this book also explains how to join in this effort.
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