Category Archives: Long-Term Care

Six Ways To Advocate for your Loved One In a Long-Term Care Facility

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1. Visit your loved one at their nursing home often. Besides giving you and your loved one a chance to interact and connect in-person, visiting their nursing home allows you to get to know the staff and the other residents whom they interact with on a daily basis. Since the majority of nursing home abuse and neglect is committed by someone familiar to the victim, regular visits with your loved one may enable you to spot nursing home neglect or abuse before it becomes deadly.

2. Remain calm and professional anytime you are working with a nursing home staff. Establishing calm and even friendly relationships with the nursing home staff at your loved one’s long-term care facility allows you to better monitor their care. It also means that the nursing home staff is more likely to respect and respond to any questions or concerns that you may have about your loved ones long-term care. Continue reading →

Florida Ranks 44 out of 51 States in Long-Term Care

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Long-term nursing home and care facilities in Florida are ranked 44 out of 51 states (including the District of Columbia), based on the types and quality of long-term care provided to nursing home residents and dependent adults.

Using a ranking system that compared each state on its overall success in the areas of: quality of life, quality of care and accessibility of care, “Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers” was recently published by the AARP Public Policy Institute, the Commonwealth Fund, and the SCAN Foundation. Continue reading →