Best Practices Journal
Assisted Living Needs More Program
April 2, 2012
Assisted Living Needs More Program
he push to arrange for care in settings other than
nursing homes and hospitals is becoming more and
more aggressive.
This is appropriate.
In...
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Best Practices Journal
Assisted Living Needs More Program
April 2, 2012
Assisted Living Needs More Program
he push to arrange for care in settings other than
nursing homes and hospitals is becoming more and
more aggressive.
This is appropriate.
In smaller, community based settings care can be rendered
with more person-centeredness
Michigan has some 4,400+ homes l
oriented settings under the designations home for the aged
and adult foster care.
While many of these serve a medically fragile, elderly
population there is still a gap.
What is that? We need
speciality homes, where every aspect of the operation is
committed to a certain population, i.
e.
the brittle diabetic, the multiple scl
Imagine a group of direct care wor
trained to recognize certain special aspects of one disease
and its progression.
Imagine this
significant familiarity with a certain
they are the most commonly used for a particular condition.
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