Care centred on patients, more sophisticated and better-informed healthcare consumers, complimentary medicine, less invasive treatments and procedures, emphasis on wellness and preventive care, green technologies and facilities, healing environments is the future we are moving towards in the nursing home industry. All the evidences point out to a new attitude, a new paradigm, a new way of thinking. Nursing homes will need to change and adapt more sophisticated ways to cater to its ever growing customers.

No more substandard

People perceive that a nursing home is a place where people go to die. If somebody has landed in a nursing home, it’s pretty much all over for them. But this is completely untrue. Nursing homes are run by professionals who care for seniors, and provide a valuable spectrum of services to them as per their need. Carson city nursing homes are in the profession of providing a structure in daily routine and care.

So they do adhere to hiring people with experience in caring for the elderly, especially those who may be frail or unwell. The elderly socialise, interact, with each other. The nursing homes now provide healthy, nutritious food sometimes even offering dietician facilities for the one who needs it.

An extra set of eyes are now watching the old to be sure medications are administered appropriately and are having the intended effect.

1987 Nursing Home Reform Act

The act was established to ensure nursing homes residents receive supreme quality care that will result in their achieving or maintaining their physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. The act also established the Residents’ Bill of Rights and since then there has been a movement around “nursing home culture change“ and “resident-centred care” that has aimed to make nursing homes a good place to live in.

Needs of Residents first

The nursing homes give the residents more control over their lives. They can make choices about their lifestyle and behaviour to be able to live like they did at their home. The nursing homes now provide them choices like no designed pattern of when and how and how much to sleep. They can stay up late reading or sleep in late without being disturbed. There are nutritional supplements like ginkgo biloba or probiotics available for them.

There is no specific uniform of the home so the residents choose their own clothing. There is privacy and they are open to engage in consensual romantic relationships and activities.

There has been a well-informed progress among both the health care givers and healthcare consumers. There is an increased awareness and demands in market leading the nursing homes to increasingly respond to residents’ wishes to provide appropriate freedom, independence, and lifestyle choices.