Nursing Home Nightmares

Author : Bill Pintas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946203458
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nursing Home Nightmares written by Bill Pintas and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this book you'll find answers to these (and many other) commonly asked questions: What To Do If You Suspect Something Is Wrong How to Know If Your Family Member Is Being Abused or Neglected? When Should We Change Nursing Homes: How, When, and Why? Why Consider a LawsuitHow Much Will It Cost? --- Client Reviews --- "Laura Mullins was excellent. She was kind and thorough. - J.B. "Thank you very much...our children will be able to improve their lifestyle and upgrade their living conditions...thanks so much!" - C.W. "I had a great experience with your firm and I would definitely recommend you to a friend or family member. Thank you so much." - A.R. "I was referred to your firm by a good friend. This was my first experience of this nature and your office and Laura made a difficult time a lot easier to deal with. - K.W.

Author : Glenn Mollette
Publisher : Gma Pub & Inspiration Press
ISBN 13 : 9780970465047
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nursing Home Nightmares written by Glenn Mollette and published by Gma Pub & Inspiration Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Katz Olson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438460732
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elder Care Journey written by Laura Katz Olson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother. For millions of Americans caregiving is the “new normal.” For Laura Katz Olson, a respected researcher of long-term care for the aging, Elder Care Journey chronicles the disruption of her world and how it is upended by the ever-increasing long-distance needs of her own mother. A healthy, Senior Olympics medal winner, Olson’s mother is slowly and steadily incapacitated by Parkinson’s disease and a gradual loss of vision. Thrust into a long-distance caregiving role, Olson finds her previous academic notions about assisting a frail parent increasingly at odds with the reality of the lived experience. In a narrative full of “ah-ha!” moments, tears, sighs, and outrage that will be familiar to many, Olson opens a window into the nursing home and home care industries that consume much in the way of taxpayer dollars, but often fail to deliver quality care. Olson’s personal story vividly demonstrates not only the overwhelming bureaucratic barriers faced by care-dependent seniors but also their beleaguered adult children’s attempts to ensure their parents’ health, safety, and well-being. “After losing two siblings, Laura Katz Olson is left singularly responsible for her physically active and lively mother, Dorothy, a thousand miles away, both young at heart and eagerly bicycling everywhere, but increasingly limited by the normal process of aging. Being an expert on aging and health care, Olson is at first confident as she tries to let her mother ‘age in place.’ More than anyone, she believes, she should know what to do. Shuttling between Florida and Pennsylvania, Olson settles into a crushing routine, and with each visit she finds incremental downward change in her mother’s health. Pulled by daughterly guilt at times, but also a wellspring of love, Olson is frank about the resentment she sometimes experiences. “With a unique perspective that links the systemic flaws in our policy approach to elder care to real-world experience, Olson exposes the challenges we all face or are likely to face. More than a personal story, but nevertheless an extremely compelling one, the book should be read by those confounded and frustrated, and by those without direct knowledge of what quietly repeats itself millions of times a day.” — Miriam Laugesen, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University “In Elder Care Journey, Laura Olson tells the riveting story of helping her aging, disabled mother navigate the system of long-term services and supports. A renowned scholar of aging and long-term care policy, Dr. Olson was nevertheless unprepared for the daily frustrations involved in confronting a bewildering array of obstacles, deceptions, burdensome and repetitive procedures and paperwork, and catch-22s, ranging from the annoying to the downright dangerous. She shows how well-intentioned policies can fall far short of meeting people’s needs, especially for those in greatest need, in a system based on fragmented interests and private-sector profit maximization. Combining scholarly expertise with personal experience, she ends the book with a detailed but highly accessible analysis of the long-term care system and how it could be improved to the benefit of both taxpayers and beneficiaries. This book is a compelling read for policymakers and for students and scholars of health care and social welfare policy, highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate courses. The author’s experiences also provide helpful advice to caregivers on what to expect and how to deal with it, as well as reassurance that they are not alone.” — Christine L. Day, University of New Orleans “If a society is judged by how well it treats its most vulnerable members, Laura Katz Olson, a prominent health policy scholar, demonstrates that we have a long way to go in how we serve frail and disabled elders in need of long-term services and supports at the end of their lives. Olson develops a compelling narrative that describes the subtle and not-so-subtle indignities imposed on elders and their caregivers navigating the complex maze of health and social service systems at their hour of greatest need. Even an expert such as Olson struggled in light of the challenges posed by these impediments. “By connecting her own personal journey to the larger societal challenges within which her struggles are embedded, Olson makes a significant contribution to the literature that should be required reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers looking to advance the welfare of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens.” — Edward Alan Miller, author of Block Granting Medicaid: A Model for 21st Century Medicaid Reform? “This page-turner is at once a tender tale of a daughter’s devotion and a stinging indictment of the hugely complex and wholly inadequate American long-term care system. That an elder-care expert can barely navigate the Byzantine web of public and private insurance and services for her disabled mother is alarming enough. Truly horrific are the system’s shortcomings and the increasing role that for-profit providers play, fleecing and even abusing their customers. A startling wake-up call.” — Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle

Author : James Ray Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982245125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nursing Home Book written by James Ray Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nursing Home Book offers a series of vignettes derived from the encounters and experiences of those residents at Stoneybrook. Make no mistake -- the residents of a nursing home, those no longer able to care for themselves, continue to cling to the hopes and dreams of their youth. Those at Stoneybrook are no different. None of those residents, regardless of background or walk of life, ever intended on spending their last days at such an institution. But whether by accident or otherwise they are all her together -- in this place."--

Author : Cheryl L. Fletcher-Docherty
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465398392
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Medicaid Nightmares into Miracles written by Cheryl L. Fletcher-Docherty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without proper, strategic planning for Medicaid qualification, the sad reality is that already cash-strapped families will face enormous hospital and nursing home bills on behalf of loved ones in need, and they will likely lose everything in the process. Lets face it: Most of us have no vast fortune to fall back on when a medical crisis strikes a loved one. As a result of poor planning, the real tragedy accordingly occurs when entire family legacies are stripped away - sometimes within a few short months or even weeks - because an elderly loved one falls into the zone of nursing homes and exploding hospital costs for catastrophic care. As a highly qualified Medicaid Planning Specialist of more than 15 years, I have run into this type of tragedy time and again. Yet, I have never lost the passion to prevent it, given enough time for advance planning, or to stop the Medicaid destruction cycle in mid-stream.

Author : Jason Ulsperger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317260643
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elder Care Catastrophe written by Jason Ulsperger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraying people who have lived and worked in long-term nursing home facilities, Elder Care Catastrophe reveals how organizational dynamics and everyday rituals have unintentionally led to resident neglect and abuse. Backed up by research and grounded in sociological theory, this book offers alternative models for lessening the maltreatment of people living in nursing homes. It provides critical information for family members struggling with nursing home issues, nursing home employees, policy-makers, students and researchers concerned with elder care issues.

Author : Edie Schmoll
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453550062
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crime Against One Person written by Edie Schmoll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Crime Against One Person is a medical tragedy, a legal battle, and a timeless love story. As a million patients are injured through medical errors in our hospitals annually--and up to 200,000 are killed--this true tale of medical malpractice and the havoc it wreaks on innocent persons reveals a crisis that affects everyone.--and is ignored by our leaders and the medical community. Interspersed are romantic and humorous incidents to relieve the underlying horror, plus practical advice for caregivers of helpless victims. Here is the shocking truth of care in American hospitals and nursing homes.

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857070266
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake written by Lisa McMann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams at any given moment is getting tired. Especially the falling dreams, and the standing-in-front-of-the-class-naked ones. But then there are the nightmares, the ones that chill her to the bone… like the one where she is in a strange house…in a dirty kitchen…and a sinister monster that edges ever closer. This is the nightmare that she keeps falling into, the one where, for the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant…

Author : Ilsa J. Bick
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ™
ISBN 13 : 1467731684
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Draw the Dark written by Ilsa J. Bick and published by Carolrhoda Lab ™. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are things the people of Winter, Wisconsin, would rather forget. The year the Nazis came to town, for one. That fire, for another. But what they'd really like to forget is Christian Cage. Seventeen-year-old Christian's parents disappeared when he was a little boy. Ever since, he's drawn obsessively: his mother's face...her eyes...and what he calls "the sideways place," where he says his parents are trapped. Christian figures if he can just see through his mother's eyes, maybe he can get there somehow and save them. But Christian also draws other things. Ugly things. Evil things. Dark things. Things like other people's fears and nightmares. Their pasts. Their destiny. There's one more thing the people of Winter would like to forget: murder. But Winter won’t be able to forget the truth, no matter how hard it tries. Not as long as Christian draws the dark...

Author : Nellie Collar Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898963281
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shattered Dreams written by Nellie Collar Anson and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: