From Medical News Today:
Although a new nursing home quality rating system has several
dimensions, experts say it fails to address perhaps the most important
question: Are the residents who live there happy?
When choosing
a nursing home, Kansas State University aging experts suggest visiting
the facility in the morning. If some of the residents are still
sleeping while others are eating breakfast, that's a sign that they're
determining their own schedules rather than doing what's easiest for
staff, said Gayle Doll, director of K-State's Center on Aging.
"If the staff is bent on people having to be in a certain place at a certain time, it's not a people-centered home," Doll said....
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Although a new nursing home quality rating system has several
dimensions, experts say it fails to address perhaps the most important
question: Are the residents who live there happy?
When choosing
a nursing home, Kansas State University aging experts suggest visiting
the facility in the morning. If some of the residents are still
sleeping while others are eating breakfast, that's a sign that they're
determining their own schedules rather than doing what's easiest for
staff, said Gayle Doll, director of K-State's Center on Aging.
"If the staff is bent on people having to be in a certain place at a certain time, it's not a people-centered home," Doll said....
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