Unvaccinated Staff Eyed In Risking Nursing Home Cases, Deaths

Unvaccinated Staff Eyed In Risking Nursing Home Cases, Deaths by Jason Dearen and Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar.  July 21, 2021.   

Motivating Nursing Home Employees To Receive The Vaccine

 Getting To Yes:  A Nursing Home's Mission To Vaccinate Its Hesitant by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  March 28, 2021.  

Study: 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year--And The Government Barely Kept Track

More Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year--And The Government Barely Kept Track by Christina Jewett and Robert Lewis and Melissa Bailey.  December 23, 2020.   

How The Pandemic Is Impacting Senior Decisions About Where To Live

A Pandemic Upshot:  Seniors Are Having Second Thoughts About Where To Live by Judith Graham.  Kaiser Health News/CNN.  September 17, 2020.   

Monoclonal Antibody Drug Being Tested As A COVID "Swat Team" For Nursing Home Outbreaks

An "Unprecedented" Effort To Stop The Coronavirus In Nursing Homes by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  August 20, 2020.

One-Third Of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents Or Workers

One-Third Of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents Or Workers by Karen Yourish, K.K. Rebecca Lai.  Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith.  May 9, 2020.

Nursing Homes "Have Become An Accelerator" For Coronavirus In Georgia

Industry Officials Expect The Virus To Continue To Spread To More Senior Care Facilities Despite Measures To Contain It by Brad Schrade And Carrie Teegardin.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  April 3, 2020

Nursing Homes Are Starkly Vulnerable To Coronavirus

Nursing Homes Are Starkly Vulnerable To Coronavirus by Matt Richter.  The New York Times.  March 5, 2020.  

Nursing Homes Are A Breeding Ground For Drug Resistant Germs

Nursing Homes Are A Breeding Ground For A Fatal Fungus by Matt Richter and Andrew Jacobs.  The New York Times.

Fewer Patients Are Winding Up In Nursing Homes--Why?

In The Nursing Home,  Empty Beds And Quiet Halls by Paula Span.  The New York Times.  September 28, 2018. 

Staffing At Nursing: Interactive Map of Thousands Of Facilities.

How Staffing Fluctuates At Nursing Homes Around The United States by Jeremy White.  The New York Times.  July 7, 2018. 

Related Party Transactions Impact Patient Care In Nursing Homes

Care Suffers As More Nursing Homes Feed Money Into Corporate Webs by Jordan Rau.  Kaiser Health News.  December 31, 2017. 

A Quarter Of Nursing Home Residents Are Colonized By Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

1 In 4 Nursing Home Residents Has Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria by Serena Gordon.  Health Day.  May 31

Skilled Nursing Homes Face Competition, New Financing Approaches To Reduce Cost

Nursing Homes Fade Even As Baby Boomers Age by Betsy Rust.  Stat.  June 23, 2016.

Nursing Homes Are Steadily Upgrading Services Lessening The Need For Hospital Admissions; Staffing and Reimbursement Practices Stand In The Way

Nursing Homes Are Starting To Supplant Hospitals As Focus Of Basic Health Care by Paula Span.  The New York Times.  April 24, 2015. 

Smart Bandage Uses Electrical Currents To Detect Tissue Damage From Pressure Ulcers Before They Can Be Seen

'Smart Bandage' Detects Bed Sores Before They Are Visible To Doctors by Sarah Yang.  UC Berkeley News Center.  March 17, 2015. 

Overprescribing Antipsychotic--In And Out Of Nursing Homes

Feds Do Little To Halt Antipsychotics Use Among Elderly Not In Nursing Homes by Ed Silverman  The Wall Street Journal.  March 2, 2015. 

Care And Insurance Seem To Align in End-Of-Life Dementia Care

Insurance Type To Dying Dementia Patients' Care by Andrew M. Seaman.  Reuters Health.  September 24, 2013.

(1)  Fee-for-service insurance payment, for every test and treatment, seemed to result in more moves to the _____________ for end-of-life dementia patient than when payment was on a _________ basis.

(2)  People with advanced dementia won't usually benefit from ______________ during the last months of life for ______________.

(3)  Nursing homes may have an incentive to send very sick people to the hospital because ________________________.

(4)  Managed care organizations receive a __________ for each person they cover.

(5)  The researcher indicated that "it turns out that (the patient) may not _________ even if you sent them to the hospital."

Lack Of Oral Care In Nursing Facilities: "An Epidemic That's Almost Universally Overlooked"

In Nursing Homes, An Epidemic Of Poor Dental Hygiene by Catherine Saint Louis.  The New York times.  August 4, 2013.

(1)  Nursing aides in nursing facilities are swamped with other tasks and brushing of teeth often ___________________________.

(2)  Residents with dementia often _________ routine dental hygiene.

(3)  A quote from an academic dentist:  "........... you can measure the quality of a nursing home by ______________________.

(4)  Lack of daily oral care in nursing facilities may be contributing to ____________, the leading killer of institutionalized older people.

(5)  True or False:  There is no national assessment of oral health in nursing homes.

(6)  True or False:  It is a federally mandated requirement that nursing home residents who cannot brush their teeth for themselves should have their teeth brushed for them.

(7)  Older Americans are more likely than ever to retain ______________.

(8)  Nearly two-thirds of long-term residents in nursing homes have _________ and resist oral care.

(9)  Natural teeth are ______________ for nursing home staff to take care than dentures.

(10)  Approximately ____________ deaths by pneumonia in a nursing home could be prevented by improving oral hygiene according to one study.

(11)  True or False:  Medicare covers routine dental care like cleanings and fillings.

(12)

Cost Of Dementia: Rand Corporation Study

Monetary Costs Of Dementia In the United States by Michael D. Hurd, Ph.D, Paco Martorell, Ph.D., et al.  The New England Journal Of Medicine.  April 4, 2013.

Dementia Tops Cancer, Heart Disease In Cost by Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer.  ABC News. April 4, 2013.

Dementia Care Cost Is Projected To Double by 2040 by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  April 3, 2013.

The original research study and two press accounts are above.  All are valuable.  Among the most disturbing aspects of dementia is that the fact that baby boomers with fewer children have fewer informal caregivers, a source of care uniquely required by Alzheimer's.  The concept of "emotional cost" of Alzheimer's was a powerful way to close the NY Times article and illustrates the importance of reading the entire article.