NURSING HOME
Nursing home is the place for people who don’t really need medical attention in the hospital but they couldn’t be cared at home either. Most nursing homes have their own 24 hours nursing aides and skilled nurses to handle the patients they have in the nursing home. While there are some nursing homes set up looks just like a hospital in order to provide them with the service as the hospital but more personalized according to their need.
The staffs here will provide patients with brief medical care as well as physical, speech and occupational therapy and there are also nurses’ stations at every floor for further attention in every patient that have been placed there. There are also nursing homes that have the feel of a neighborhood to give the patients the feeling as if they are currently at home. They don’t have fixed daily schedules and kitchens are normally opens for everyone there.
Nursing home is more likely for the elderly people who don’t need a lot of medical attention yet there are still require receiving their care that is not at home. Normally these elderly people don’t have any children who could take care of them because they could be orphanage or their children are no longer able to take care of them at this time. Thus living in the nursing home might help them to survive and function like normal people.
Some of these nursing homes have special care units to help them for treatments that include memory loss and other serious cases. To be more exact, some nursing homes allow the couple to live together because this nursing homes are not only treated for an elderly but also it is for everyone who need further 24 hours attention in their lives.
