The following is a guest post from Sandra Harris. No one really wants to get old and reach the point where they can no longer care for themselves. But, as hard as it is on the older person, itäó»s just as hard on his or her family and loved ones...
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Blacks 15% Less Likes to Get Proper Vaccinations in Nursing Homes
From Health Day News – A new study in the American Journal of Public Health finds racial disparity in vaccination rates among U.S. nursing-home residents. Blacks were 13 percent to 15 percent less likely to get vaccinated than whites. Researchers analyzed a 2004 survey of 11,448 white and 1,174 black...
Sex in the Nursing Home
Here is a somewhat heart warming and disturbing article in Slate.com entitled “She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.” It is nicely written by Melinda Henneberger. Stop and read it then come back and comment about what you...
Race and Nursing Homes
According to a study to be published in a medical journal Health Services Research, black nursing home residents in Maryland and Virginia are more likely than white residents to be sent to hospitals for dehydration, poor nutrition, bedsores and other ailments because of a gap in the quality of in-house...
Blacks likelier to live in poor-quality nursing homes
A new report in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, finds that 60% of blacks in nursing homes ended up in just 10% of the facilities ÛÓ typically ones that had been cited for quality problems. Interestingly the south was the least segregated around this issue. And that is consistent...