Naked In The Nursing Home

This is the no-nonsense guide that will give you everything you need to know about how to pay for long-term care for yourself, Mom or Dad without going broke. Naked in the Nursing Home adroitly weaves together both humor and hard-hitting facts to equip you and your elderly parents for the future. This book is authored by a financial advisor who specializes in working with the elderly and their familes, with new information from two of the leading elder law attorneys in the country. This book takes a look at the following critical information:- Defining long-term care in layman's terms- Common myths surrounding long-term care costs and options- How to identify and prevent a family financial crises- Understanding Medicaid and how to use it to your benefit- Alternatives in long-term care insurance and tax benefits- Special benefits for U.S. veterans

In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal that our negative and often painful thoughts about nursing homes are not always well-founded. The authors effectively use monologue and dialogue to take the reader into the world of the nursing home to observe the work of the nursing home staffs, from administrators to housekeepers, as they become surrogate families and friends of the patients. Most moving are the thoughts and words of the residents themselves, especially as they describe their initial horror and anger at being in the nursing home, and their feelings of abandonment and loss of self-esteem. Valuable for both undergraduate and graduate courses in nursing, social work, psychology, death and dying, pastoral care and counseling, this comprehensive volume is useful as a primary or supplementary text. BACKCOVER COPY In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, David Oliver and Sally Tureman have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal that our negative and often painful thoughts about nursing homes are not always well-founded. The authors effectively use monologue and dialogue to take the reader into the world of the nursing home to observe the work of the nursing home staffs, from administrators to housekeepers, as they become surrogate families and friends of the patients. Most moving are the thoughts and words of the residents themselves, especially as they describe their initial horror and anger at being in the nursing home, and their feelings of abandonment and loss of self-esteem. The Human Factor in Nursing Home Care provides a new and refreshing perspective of those who provide care in nursing homes and those who receive it. And, in the end, it challenges the reader to consider his or her own images of aging and of dying.

"This is not another treatise against institutions for the elderly and disabled. Using the medium of fiction, G. Janet Tulloch has written an accurate, unsentimental and well-detailed portrayal of nursing home life. rather than emphasizing the horrors and limitations of such living, the author has depicted the struggle for personal dignity and individuality by the residents, showing that neglect and victimization by the staff is more often caused by indifference and insensitivity than intentional cruelty. The main character, Joady, has an unnamed physical handicap which enables her to lead a more active life than her friends who are victims of cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, old age and senility. All are in the process of dying, to various degrees. But all of them are engaged in the common frustrations of daily living. All are in the process of dying, to various degrees. But all of them are engaged in the common frustrations of daily living. When Joady visits close friends at Christmas, she discovers that her situation is not unique, that people outside can be guilty too for this same insensitivity which deprives human beings of understanding what they do to each other. Janet Tulloch has lived in a nursing home since 1965, and her first-hand insights are more valuable than the most sincere and thorough investigative efforts of outsiders reporting on the suddenly newsworthy nursing-home scandals. A Home Is Not A Home is indispensable reading for anyone who has a relative in a nursing home or who is facing such a decision either for themselves or for loved ones. It should be required reading for legislators, doctors and nurses, counselors, volunteers, pastors and nursing home trustees" -- Dust jacket.

This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia. It responds to the needs of an increasing ageing population that has to deal with related health needs in long-term care, community health and social services, particularly for chronic conditions and psychosocial support. The book consists of three sections on policy and development of aged care, holistic and humanistic care for older adults, and capacity building for ageing with dignity, respectively. Topics include the latest initiatives in aged care, appropriate services and delivery models, lifestyle modification, psychosocial and environmental considerations, professional development, technologies, and social capital. The chapters review and discuss these issues within a global context, illustrated by examples from Asian countries, underpinned by locally based empirical research. Contributors include academics and practitioners from diversified professional backgrounds that include medicine, nursing, pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, dietetics, and allied health. The book traverses into territories in the social sciences, life sciences, and sports sciences, while also touching on areas of business and administration, hospitality, law, public policy, and information technology in connection with public health. The contents serve as a topical reference for tertiary studies in ageing and related disciplines such as well-being and are also useful to policymakers, community and public health practitioners, health executives and interns working in areas of policy and practice pertinent to care development, health delivery models, planning, quality, ethics, better health promotion, professional training, and monitoring for older adults.