The Resource Everything you need to know about nursing homes : the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives, Charlotte Digregorio
Everything you need to know about nursing homes : the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives, Charlotte Digregorio
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- Summary
- Based on the author's vast personal experience of spending unusually long hours daily at three nursing homes with her bedridden, comatose mother for nearly four and one-half years, until she took her back home for the final eight months of her life, this book deals with the advantages and disadvantages of care alternatives, such as caring for a bedridden or ambulatory person at home by oneself; the hiring of home help; adult day care; assisted living facilities; residential care facilities; foster homes; and hospice
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages)
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Introduction : why I wrote this book and who it's for
- Selecting a nursing home
- Understanding the routine at nursing homes and solving problems
- Working with the institution
- The feeding tube fiasco
- Alternatives to nursing homes
- You can care for the bedridden
- Stimulation for the elderly person
- Long-term care insurance
- How family members can cope with illness and death
- Where do we go from here?
- Label
- Everything you need to know about nursing homes : the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives
- Title
- Everything you need to know about nursing homes
- Title remainder
- the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives
- Statement of responsibility
- Charlotte Digregorio
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Based on the author's vast personal experience of spending unusually long hours daily at three nursing homes with her bedridden, comatose mother for nearly four and one-half years, until she took her back home for the final eight months of her life, this book deals with the advantages and disadvantages of care alternatives, such as caring for a bedridden or ambulatory person at home by oneself; the hiring of home help; adult day care; assisted living facilities; residential care facilities; foster homes; and hospice
- Cataloging source
- ZNM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Digregorio, Charlotte
- Dewey number
- 362.16
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA997
- LC item number
- .D54 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- NLM call number
- WX 27.1
- NLM item number
- D575 2005
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nursing homes
- Nursing home care
- Nursing home care
- Nursing homes
- Long-Term Care
- Nursing Homes
- Label
- Everything you need to know about nursing homes : the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives, Charlotte Digregorio
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : why I wrote this book and who it's for -- Selecting a nursing home -- Understanding the routine at nursing homes and solving problems -- Working with the institution -- The feeding tube fiasco -- Alternatives to nursing homes -- You can care for the bedridden -- Stimulation for the elderly person -- Long-term care insurance -- How family members can cope with illness and death -- Where do we go from here?
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1082978983
- Label
- Everything you need to know about nursing homes : the family's comprehensive guide to either working with the institution or finding care alternatives, Charlotte Digregorio
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : why I wrote this book and who it's for -- Selecting a nursing home -- Understanding the routine at nursing homes and solving problems -- Working with the institution -- The feeding tube fiasco -- Alternatives to nursing homes -- You can care for the bedridden -- Stimulation for the elderly person -- Long-term care insurance -- How family members can cope with illness and death -- Where do we go from here?
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1082978983
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