Nursing homes: How they impact the dignity of older adults
Call it what you want: nursing home, skilled nursing facility, rehab center, convalescent home, or post-acute care. They are all the same and a common destination should you survive a recent hospitalization. But they all have an existing reputation and can ultimately diminish the dignity of older adults. Never in my four decades of practice
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Nursing homes: How they impact the dignity of older adults originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Gene Uzawa Dorio, MD Tags: Physician Geriatrics Source Type: blogs