Category Archives: Medical Aspects

If you are suffering from vision impairments, you can take relief in that it is most often very easily corrected. First, it is strongly recommended that you make a visit to your local eye care professional, to make a careful … Continue reading →

Structurally, a nursing home should look more like a home and less like a hospital. What effort is made to have familiar belongings in the patient’s new home? Are patients permitted to have special pieces of furniture and bed covers … Continue reading →

The term dementia refers to an across-the-board decline in intellectual abilities. This is an acquired disorder as compared to disorders present at birth, such as mental retardation. Dementia is strongly linked to age. becoming progressively more frequent with advancing age … Continue reading →

The successful establishment and development of specialized nursing home services for Alzheimer patients is greatly influenced by the attitude of management and staff. A nursing home program will not extend beyond the shadow of its leaders. It is essential that … Continue reading →

Progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has made painfully slow yet steady progress in the last decade. With the devastating toll Alzheimer’s wreaks on the nearly 4 million victims in the United States and their families, at … Continue reading →

It should not be assumed that nursing homes will necessarily have adequate behavioral management programs. In fact some homes specifically forbid behavior modification despite evidence that such programs can offer very effective and humane means of managing behavior problems. The … Continue reading →

The principal form of dementia (senility) is Alzheimer’s disease. Whether or not a person is a health care professional, a health care provider, a family member of an Alzheimer victim, or just a taxpayer, there are good reasons for seeking … Continue reading →