It’s terrifying to watch your parents or other elderly loved ones decline both physically and mentally right before your eyes. It’s not at all uncommon for a loved one’s needs to exceed your abilities, which is why you turned to professionals for nursing care. It can...
For elderly patients in a nursing home, bed rails can be more harmful than helpful. Although they are meant to keep patients from falling out of bed, they can cause serious injury if they become tangled. Patients who are cognitively impaired or whose movement is...
Bedsores or pressure ulcers are a kind of injury that people strongly associate with older adults and nursing homes. Those who are unable to freely move on their own will spend much of their day in a chair or a bed. Hours of pressure on the same parts of the body can...
Moving your loved one into a nursing home is often a decision based on necessity. You worry that your loved one could be vulnerable without around-the-clock medical support, and you still have your own family to care for it or job to work. A nursing home should help...
When your loved one is in a nursing home, you expect that they will be treated with respect. You expect that they will be taken to meals. If they can’t make it to breakfast, lunch or dinner, you expect that the facility will bring their meal to them instead....
If you moved an aging loved one into a nursing home, you likely did so because you worried that you could not meet their needs anymore. Whether they need around-the-clock care due to dementia or physical support due to bodily issues, a nursing home might be a safer...
It is a sad truth that many nursing home patients are given medications that they do not need. Those medications are given to them to make them more “manageable,” in the home, which often means sleepy, dazed and unable to speak up for help and assistance. While there...
People send their loved ones to nursing homes because they can't provide the right standard of daily support at home and they want their family members to be safe. Unfortunately, the people working in nursing homes often don't receive competitive pay and may have no...
The professionals who provide care at the nursing home where your loved one lives have control over not just their health and safety, but also their quality of life. Your loved one may need help with everything from grooming and dressing themselves to eating and using...
As the coronavirus pandemic grips the nation, medical experts have repeatedly stressed that the most vulnerable to Covid-19 are older people and those with underlying medical problems. Over and over again, New Haven news outlets have reported on staggeringly high...
