There are many federal and state laws addressing, directly and indirectly, the quality of care provided to nursing home residents and the protection of residents from mistreatment. They include: (a) state laws that govern the licensing of nursing homes, (b) federal laws that govern the certification of nursing homes for participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, (c) elder abuse laws p...

Dr. Ede-Nichols earned her dental degree at Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. College of Dental Medicine, Teaneck, New Jersey, and masters degree in health law at NSU Shepard Broad Law Center. She is Chairman of the Department of Community Dentistry and the Director of the Institute for Special Needs Dentistry at Nova Southeastern University. She can be reached at (954) 262-5354, or [email protected]....

Case-mix systems for nursing homes use resident characteristics to predict the relative use of resources. Seven systems are compared in structure, accuracy in explaining resource use, group homogeneity, and ability to identify residents receiving heavy care. Resource utilization groups, version II (RUG-II), was almost uniformly the best system, although management minutes and the Minnesota case...

IT WAS a woman called Lilly who put Val Freestone on the path to nursing older people. Lilly was in the nursing home where Ms Freestone was working as a healthcare assistant, having accidentally found a job there when she accompanied a friend to an interview.

The 1986 Inventory of Long-Term Care Places (ILTCP) was a survey of two types of facilitie~ nursing and related care homes and facilities for the mentally retarded. This report deals only with nursing and related care homes. As used in this survey, the term “nursing and related care homes” incorporates all nursing care homes including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities,...

Background: Nursing students hesitate to choose aged care as a career, and the aged care sectors are on an edge regarding nursing positions. Clinical learning environments may influence nursing students’ career choices. Few studies have explored learning environments in nursing homes, although students increasingly have placements there. Objectives: The aim was to produce information for develo...

Background and Objectives: We sought to obtain data about the prevalence of dementia in rural nursing homes in Germany. Methods: We conducted our data between 2007 and 2009 in the diocese of Passau, Germany. By using a questionnaire we asked all nursing homes in the area to provide information about patients with dementia. We obtained detailed data from three nursing homes by personal visits, t...