Municipalities’ Decision to Care: At Home or in a Nursing Home

Norwegian Nursing Home—A Care Facility or a Home?

This article focuses on the function of Norwegian nursing homes. A brief history of institutionalisation of older people in Norway is presented. An expressed task for Norwegian nursing homes is active treatment, and even though the “Guarantee of dignity” was implemented from January 2011, there are proofs that the rights of the residents are constantly violated. Another task for Norwegian nursi...

applying nursing process at home

extract: most information about family assessment are gathered during home visits have many benefits. one of them is that information about structure and habits of families may be more real when you observe the house and around it to find supportive and obstacles for promotion of family health. in addition family members are often more comprehensive in their home and can better act for their ne...

Choosing an adult foster home or a nursing home: residents' perceptions about decision making and control.

Representative samples of 260 Oregon foster care residents and 179 cognitively intact nursing home residents were queried retrospectively about the nature and circumstances surrounding their decision to move to a foster care or nursing home, including the alternatives they considered, the circumstances leading to the move, their perception of the decision-making process and who influenced it, t...

intensive care at home: an opportunity or threat

Nursing home care: an introduction.

Practicing nursing home medicine can be both rewarding and challenging. Nursing homes provide a low overhead, flexible, self-designed practice setting with varied, complex patients. With recent changes in the health care system, nursing homes have become places of increasing medical acuity, and are no longer only places of long term residential care. Increasing efforts by Centers for Medicare a...