Over at Long Term Living (used to be Nursing Homes Magazine) they’re asking for ideas and solutions to the ever present big time issue: STAFFING PROBLEMS. Go over and leave your thoughts and opinion. I did.

The New York Times has an article up about whether aggressive medical care is appropriate for elderly people.

HANOVER, N.H. — Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages […]

Senator Grassley has introduced legislation aimed at increasing the transparency of nursing home ownership. This is in response to the Manor Care buy out.
Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2008
Increases Transparency About Nursing Home Ownership and Operations
* Enables the residents and the government to know who actually owns the nursing home
* Strengthens accountability requirements […]

There’s a lot of buzz outside the world of nursing homes and other places CNA’s are employed at: It’s called THE NO JERK POLICY. Some people refer to this as Workplace Civility.
In the business community this term refers to businesses that have a zero tolerance for hiring, and keeping on staff, people who exhibit […]

Over at the PHI blog, Elise shares an interview of Barbara Bowers with readers. It’s pertinent here as well. Barbara is a tireless advocate for CNA’s and direct care givers- advocating better working conditions and wages among other things.
Nurture relationships between direct-care workers and the people they care for. “Those relationships are the most important […]

When we read about and hear people discussing nursing homes, remember this very important point:
I was thinking about this last night and realized something quite obvious. JCAHO, the organization that accredits virtually every hospital in this county, has established standards for hospitals to go by. These standards are considered optimally achievable outcomes — what a […]