What is a nursing home?
A: A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or
disabled people.
Nursing homes may also be referred to as what?
A: Skilled nursing facility (SNF), long-term care facilities, old people's
homes, assisted living facilities, care homes, rest homes, convalescent
homes or convalescent care.
Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to
indicate what?
A: Whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide
mostly assisted living, or nursing care and emergency medical care.
Nursing homes are used by people who do not need to be
in a hospital but what?
A: Cannot be cared for at home.
The nursing home facility nurses have the responsibilities of caring for the patients' medical needs and also what?
A: The responsibility of being in charge of other employees, depending on their ranks.
Most nursing homes have nursing aides and what on hand
24 hours a day?
A: Skilled nurses.
In the United States, while nearly 1 in 10 residents age 75 to 84 stays in a nursing home for five or more years, nearly 3 in 10 residents in that age group stay how long?
A: Less than 100 days, the maximum duration covered by Medicare.
Some nursing homes also provide short-term what?
A: Rehabilitative stays following surgery, illness, or injury.
Services may include what?
A: Physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech-language therapy.
Nursing homes also offer other services, such as what?
A: Planned activities and daily housekeeping.
Nursing homes may offer memory care services, often
called what?
A: Dementia care.
Poorhouses/workhouses were the first implemented
national framework to provide what?
A: A basic level of care to the old and infirm.
From before the 17th century to modern day, many
families care for their elders where?
A: In the family's home.
Why has this become increasingly more difficult over
time?
A: Life expectancy increases, family size decreases, and increased expertise
in caring for a person with a chronic disease.
In the 21st century, nursing homes have become what?
A: A standard form of care for most aged and incapacitated persons to
account for those complexities.
What percentage of older adults are sheltered in
residential facilities that provide a wide range of care?
A: Nearly 6 percent.
In the 17th century, poorhouses (also referred to as
almshouses) originated in England as municipalities were expected to do
what?
A: Care for their poor.
Orphans, people determined to be mentally ill, and
elderly people were often placed into these living commons while able-bodied
individuals were expected to what?
A: To work and could be imprisoned if they refused.
This model was brought to North America by whom?
A: English settlers.
Before the 19th century, no age-restricted institutions
existed for what?
A: Long-term care.
Elderly individuals, who needed shelter because of
incapacity, impoverishment, or family isolation, often ended their days in a
what?
A: An almshouse.
Placed alongside people deemed insane, people who were
inebriated, or people who were homeless, they were simply categorized as
what?
A: Part of the community's most needy recipients.
Poorhouses gave a place where they could be given what?
A: Shelter and daily meals.
In the 1800s in the US, women's and church groups began
to establish what?
A: Special homes for the elderly persons.
Often concerned that individuals of their own ethnic or
religious communities might what?
A: Die alongside the most despised society.
This led to the creation of what?
A: Private care facilities for the elderly in these communities.
Poorhouses continued to exist into the early 20th
century, despite what?
A: The criticism of the poor conditions of the poorhouses.
Due to muckraking in the 1930s, the less-than-favorable
living conditions of the poorhouses were what?
A: Exposed to the public.
This led to the provision of the Social Security Act
(1935) to only give people their pension if they what?
A: Did not live in poorhouses but could live in private institutions.
In the US, poorhouses were then replaced with what?
A: Residential living home, known as board-and-care homes or convalescent
homes.
These board-and-care homes provided what?
A: Basic levels of care and meals in a private setting for a specific fee.