It’s Nursing Home Week. Here’s What to Look For….from The Charlotte Today Program
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Therapy Animals May Delay Dementia (Video)
Therapy Animals May Delay Dementia
Therapy Animals May Delay Dementia
German and Swiss researchers have done research that suggests that the use of therapy animals in nursing homes may delay dementia. For ten weeks they worked with 65 nursing home residents with dementia with an average age of 81.8. Residents were randomly assigned to either a group where there was...
Caring Stars of 2013 (VIDEO)
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Discharge From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Can Have Long-Term Consequences
@Photodisc, Getty Images A national study has shown that being hospitalized for a stroke or hip fracture can lead to long-term institutionalization in a nursing home. Direct discharge to a skilled nursing facility put patients at “extremely high risk” of needing long-term nursing home care. Researchers at the University of...
Videoconferencing Enriches Nursing Home Residents’ Lives
Using Internet-based communication tools from SKYPE or MSN, researchers in Taiwan helped 34 residents at 10 nursing homes communicate with family members via videoconferencing. All 18 women and 16 men reported that the experience enriched their lives. Each resident used the videoconferencing differently, with 12% of family äóìvisitsäó taking place...
The Sparks of Life Program More Evidence of the Healing Power of Music
Thanks to reader Laura Bramly who alerted us to this program in Australia. It is called the Sparks of Life program and uses music therapy, along with leaders trained as facilitators. Here is a link to a video. It shows two people with dementia who were unresponsive prior to taking...
Mentally Ill More Prevalent in Nursing Homes
According to a new article by the Associated Press the mentally ill are becoming more prevalent in the nursing home population. Younger, stronger residents with schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder are living beside frail senior citizens, and sometimes taking their rage out on them. Numbers obtained through the Freedom of...