http://www.lamkaumow.org/3134-the-nursing-home-choice-how-to-choose-the-ideal-nursing-home Tue, 11 May 2010 11:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.lamkaumow.org/3134-the-nursing-home-choice-how-to-choose-the-ideal-nursing-home#comment-4799 A. Peticolas Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:59:25 +0000 http://www.lamkaumow.org/3134-the-nursing-home-choice-how-to-choose-the-ideal-nursing-home#comment-4799 This book is somewhat informative about internal pressures in nursing homes and how they work. For instance, she relates how a physical therapist may be pressured to let less qualified people actually do the work and sign off on it. <br /> But her perspective is pretty exclusively that of a physical therapist and of old people whose conditions CAN improve. This is not everyone and the geriatric nurse perspective she criticizes is actually more humane for many people. <br /> She has some good suggestions on things to look at, people to talk to, and questions to ask of a nursing home, but if you are going to get only one book on the topic, this would not be it. <br /> Rating: 2 / 5 This book is somewhat informative about internal pressures in nursing homes and how they work. For instance, she relates how a physical therapist may be pressured to let less qualified people actually do the work and sign off on it.

But her perspective is pretty exclusively that of a physical therapist and of old people whose conditions CAN improve. This is not everyone and the geriatric nurse perspective she criticizes is actually more humane for many people.

She has some good suggestions on things to look at, people to talk to, and questions to ask of a nursing home, but if you are going to get only one book on the topic, this would not be it.


Rating: 2 / 5

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