Nursing Home Checklist
Nursing Home Checklist
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Basic Information
The nursing home is Medicare-certified.
The nursing home is Medicaid-certified.
The nursing home has the level of care you need
(e.g. skilled, custodial), and a bed is available.
The nursing home has special services if needed
in a separate unit (e.g. dementia, ventilator, or
rehabilitation), and a bed is available.
The nursing [...]
Individualized care for seniors who need assistance
Irma Jean Chambers’ dementia has stolen her memory of her birth date, what she did earlier in the day and which of the 12 private bedrooms is hers.
But she knows that she likes the unusual new assisted living home in Chili where she now lives.
“It’s very important to keep yourself young, to make you feel [...]
More volunteers for nursing homes
South Jersey needs more volunteers like Jim Vine of Barrington and Ann Herrmann-Sauer of Haddonfield to drop in on nursing homes and check on the health and safety of residents, state officials say.
In weekly, unannounced visits, Vine and Herrmann-Sauer solve quality-of-life concerns, such as cold coffee or broken televisions, and head off bigger problems by [...]