Orienting the Architect to Nursing Home Design

Sample Design Research for the National Nursing Home Survey

The National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS) is a nationally representative sample survey of nursing home facilities, their residents, discharges, and staff conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The NNHS estimates are for freestanding facilities and nursing care units in hospitals, retirement centers, or similar institutions where the unit maintained separate financial and r...

Nursing Home

Forecasting the nursing home population.

Falls in the nursing home.

OBJECTIVE To review the epidemiology and causes of falls and fall-related injuries in nursing homes and to provide clinicians with a structured framework to evaluate and treat nursing home residents at risk for falls. DATA SOURCES All large-scale published studies documenting incidence, causes, risk factors, and preventive strategies for falls in nursing homes were reviewed. RESULTS The mea...

How to select a nursing home.

Before considering placement in a nursing home, you should explore the possibility of using alternative services or programs that permit the older person to receive the needed care in his or her own home or in a community setting. An increasing number and variety of communityased health, supportive services and specialized living arrangements have been created in communities throughout the nati...