At a recent conference on aging and disability, I visited with one very excited nursing home employee, and I was all ears. She was telling me that the old nursing home model is based on a military construct. Multiple beds in multiple rows of multiple rooms. Very efficient. Not very life enhancing. Many nursing homes have improved on... Read more
I live in an area of the country where, I believe, most nursing homes are good. Not perfect, mind you, but for the most part they are good. There's a lot of competition, which forces a certain amount of progressive thinking. We have some good training programs for dementia caregivers which is something I've written about on... Read more
A new study published in the September 11, 2007 issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology shows that the generally healthful Mediterranean diet may help people with Alzheimer's disease live longer. "'The more closely people followed the Mediterranean diet, the more they reduced their... Read more
While I was growing up, I'd hear, occasionally, about someone having to go to a "rest home" or an "old folk's home." As the decades slipped by, the term "nursing home" came into vogue. Regardless of the name change, they were all warehouses for those tough folks who actually survived a stroke or who had... Read more
The CNN.com article, "Exhaustion, anger of caregiving get a name: Stress of full-time caregiving increasingly referred to as ‘caregiver syndrome,'" is getting a lot of attention. I've read a couple of responses from people who seem to think it unwise to come up with yet another label for another set of symptoms. I see... Read more
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