Nursing Homes - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

[Pre-Therapy in nursing home care: new approaches to persons with severe dementia]

17 Jul 2009 In this contribution the results of a descriptive explorative study are presented, in which the significance of Pre-Therapy techniques for dementia care is examined. The approach was developed by Garry Prouty. In the project the approach was taught ... Read more...

The effect of care setting on elder abuse: results from a Michigan survey.

29 Jun 2009 This study compares abuse rates for elders age 60 and older in three care settings: nursing home, paid home care, and assisted living. The results are based on a 2005 random-digit dial survey of relatives of or those responsible for, a person in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Homes - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Respect for seniors. Environmental services and long-term care. 30 Jul 2009
• England's big care debate. 23 Jul 2009
• [Pre-Therapy in nursing home care: new approaches to persons with severe dementia] 17 Jul 2009
• The effect of care setting on elder abuse: results from a Michigan survey. 29 Jun 2009
• An aged-care MECA--the journey so far. 29 Jun 2009
• Beyond the medical model: the culture change revolution in long-term care. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing facilities face a new challenge: better treatment of pain. 29 Jun 2009
• IT sophistication and quality measures in nursing homes. 20 Jun 2009
• Dementia-friendly architecture: environments that facilitate wayfinding in nursing homes. 30 May 2009
• Who cares for the elderly? Aged care nurses do. 30 May 2009
• Results of a longitudinal analysis of national data to examine relationships between organizational and market characteristics and changes in antipsychotic prescribing in US nursing homes from 1996 through 2006. 30 May 2009
• Racial differences in medication use among older, long-stay Veterans Affairs nursing home care unit patients. 30 May 2009
• The culture of a Taiwanese nursing home. 30 May 2009
• Falls in the nursing home: a collaborative approach. 30 May 2009
• Preface. Long-term care. 30 May 2009
• Pain management in the nursing home. 30 May 2009
• Disparities in long-term healthcare. 30 May 2009
• Leadership in nursing homes-2009: challenges for change in difficult times. 30 May 2009
• The nursing workforce in long-term care. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Nursing Homes'

Definition: Facilities which provide nursing supervision and limited medical care to persons who do not require hospitalization.

Descriptor UI: D009735

Alternative terms: Nursing Homes; Homes, Nursing; Home, Nursing; Nursing Home;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.825.610;

Technical Notes: nursing homes for the aged: coord IM with HOMES FOR THE AGED (IM); DF: NURS HOMES