Concern Over Nursing Homes for Alzheimer’s Patients

With the growing need for assisted living and nursing home accommodations, families often are puzzled when it comes to making a choice.  They hear horror stores, as well as pleasing ones about treatment residents have received. 

I was fortunate that all my family members, and my husband’s parents, who needed either assisted living or nursing home care, received good treatment.  There were minor complaints…such as one person finding fault with the food and desiring to help the chef cook.  But she admitted she couldn’t taste food like she once did, whether at the assisted living, in restaurants, or when still in her own home.

On the other side of the spectrum, we encounter reports like the one Mona Johnson refers to on The Tangled Neutron, a layperson’s input about dementia and eldercare.  Mona discusses an article in Forbes that analyzes the nursing and assisted living situation.

With the increasing senior population, the need for more senior care and need for more nursing and assisted living homes, as well as staff, we are reaching a situation where most of these residences will be run by larger corporations rather than by a family or small organization.  Families of Alzheimer’s patients will need resources to research which are best for their relative.         Since everyone is different, families differ, and situations do, there is not one right choice for everyone.  Research and learn, ask questions, and become involved in your family member’s care.