Nursing Homes: Getting Good Care There
Nursing Homes: Getting Good Care There (The Working Caregiver Series)
by Virginia Fraser, Sara Hunt, Barbara Frank and Sarah Greene Burger
Long-term care for aging parents is one of the most difficult, expensive and frustrating issues facing American families today. Newly revised and updated, this handbook was prepared by Consumer Voice as an advocacy tool for better conditions and care for nursing home residents. It helps readers select and work with nursing homes, offering proven procedures developed by effective advocates nationwide. Includes many strategies for protecting patient rights to aid families in insuring quality care for loved ones.An essential resource for caring families and patient advocates!
Good nursing home care definitely exists, but you have to know where to look and how to look. This book is a valuable tool for consumers seeking quality nursing home care." --U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley (Iowa)
"While we all hope that nursing homes will take care of our loved ones the way we would if we could, experience shows that getting good care really depends on us -- family members and close friends. This new edition of this highly acclaimed book provides the information we all need to recognize problems when they occur, learn what quality care is and what's required by law, and identify people and organizations that can help us. Everyone with a family member or close friend in a nursing home should have NURSING HOMES: GETTING GOOD CARE THERE." --Bill Novelli, Executive Director and CEO, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
"This book, in its direct, easy-to-read style, will help families and friends of persons in nursing homes to understand what makes good care, and the laws that support it. Fully informed customers can build a partnership with nursing home staff which helps everybody." --T. Franklin Williams, M.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus; Former Director, National Institute on Aging
"I love this book! Carefully constructed stories... excellent and practical problem solving. The authors are on the front line of nursing home reform -- one-on-one, resident by resident." --A. Frank Johns, Esq., National Association of Elder Law Attorneys
SARAH GREENE BURGER, RN, MPH, is a former Consumer Voice Executive Director and consultant for Consumer Voice, the only national consumer advocacy organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life and care in long-term care institutions. VIRGINIA FRASER, MA, was the state long-term care ombudsman in Colorado for 21 years. SARA HUNT, MSSW, is a consultant and former state long-term care ombudsman. BARBARA FRANK, MS, MPA, is Director of Health Policy for the Massachusetts office of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute.
