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This Nursing Home's Retro Rooms Help Dementia Patients Remember the Past-- This is a neat article! It makes me happy to see that some nursing homes go above and beyond for the sake of their patients! If end up in LTC I would love to be at one like this!

Bed Rail Entrapment Statistics Today there are about 2.5 million hospital and nursing home beds in use in the United States. Between 1985 and January 1, 2009, 803 incidents of patients* caught, trapped, entangled, or strangled in beds with rails were reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

I decided to share this article as I was unaware that there is a specific group to help farmers continue to live and work independently. In the rural area I live in, this information will definitely be needed. Many of the physical disabilities I witnessed in nursing homes and in outpatient settings were direct results of farming injuries. As well, farmers are very self-sufficient and their self worth is based mostly on their ability to maintain their lifestyle.

This video follows a contractor around a house as he shows changes they have made for an aging adult.

Great ideas on this video, Tiffany! I am very much in favor or either making nursing homes much less institutional or helping people stay in their homes longer. I feel as if there are a lot of advances and changing attitudes on this topic. Some of the universal designs that are shown, I would like to have them now! Never mind on waiting to get them when I'm old. Least path of resistance, I say. LOL

As the population ages many of use will have to face sexuality issues with our own parents. Two extremes are represented here, one home where the man was forced to move after found having sex with another resident and one where sexual relationships are considered natural.

This webpage offers information as to the benefits of aging in place. I didn't realize how cost effective it is to age in place rather than going to an assisted living or nursing home. Not only the accessibility of the home but also the technology that would need to be learned for the homeowner to receive the care and emergency help when needed.

2000 Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass, Inc. Physical restraints are items used to restrict, restrain or prevent movement of a person. Examples of restraints include belts, vest restraints, cuffs and sometimes special chairs or bed siderails. Whether or not a particular item is considered a physical restraint depends on the purpose and effect of its use.

This article talks about reasons why elder patients may be at risk for falling as well as strategies and modern technology to help improve safety in hospitals and nursing homes.

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I loved this! My mom has RA and always asks me to help her put on her makeup. These are some really good tips to know if you ever come across this in treatment. I am going to suggest most of them to my mom!

Thanks, Breanne! I like this topic. If I ever end up in the nursing home, I've wondered about doing my own makeup. I hope I'll be able to, LOL! I have a blush case from Belks that is so hard to open. I often think as I struggle around with it how many little old ladies who also shop at Belks are cursing this dumb case! We need universal design for makeup containers.