How To Choose a Nursing Home #1 A Practical Guide

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Most people don’t really think about how to choose a nursing home until it’s time to choose a nursing home and a decision needs to be made quickly. It’s very stressful to figure out how to make such a major decision in short order.
The good news is that there is a free guide book for you to use that will show you step by step how to choose a nursing home or a long term care facility. “Your Way: How to Find Dignity and Choice in a Nursing Home” is a free book that you can download by clicking the link in the description box. It explains how nursing homes and long term care facilities have evolved and exactly what you need to look for to ensure that your loved one is getting the best care possible.
Many people will take the step of checking out the Nursing Home Ratings, which is a good step. However, looking at Nursing Home Ratings is not enough, because that only shows you the minimum standards, like staffing and health inspection. There is a big difference between getting the minimal physical needs met and getting good, quality care in what becomes your loved one’s new home.
Begin by clicking the link in the description box to download your free guide book. In the next video, we’ll explain why it is critical that you understand what “person-centered care” is and how this makes all the difference in the care that your loved one receives.
To summarize, knowing how to choose a nursing home ahead of time, because if you wait until you absolutely must be in a position to know how to choose a nursing home, you will be choosing a nursing home under stress. At that time, you will probably be lucky if you even have the presence of mind to use the government’s nursing home ratings to help you know how to choose a nursing home. Instead, you want to learn how to choose a nursing home well before you are in the position of needing to know how to choose a nursing home, so that the nursing home ratings are not your only yardstick. Nursing home ratings are just a beginning, because nursing home ratings only tell you how the nursing home rated on the bare minimum standards. Nursing home ratings do not tell you anything about whether the nursing home practices person centered care. Before you are in a crisis and absolutely need to know how to choose a nursing home, you can get a free book from the Illinois Pioneer coalition, a non-profit, that will tell you how to start with the nursing home ratings, but then go farther to know exactly how to choose a nursing home with confidence.