Nursing Home Case Study

Nursing homes, however, are designed for persons in need of 24-hour nursing care (Allen, 2011) Even though they provide almost the same residential components of other long-term care options, which includes housing, personal care, protection, supervision, and sometimes therapy, the availability of on-site medical staff is the edge they have over the others. Nursing homes have custodial care, which a person with Alzheimer’s disease will need. The custodial care which includes assistance with all of the activities of daily living like eating, dressing, bathing, walking and medication management. With the above explanation, Don will likely choose a nursing home for the care of his wife, Mary.
While Mary is battling with her ailment on one hand,
One of the requirements necessary in accessing a nursing home care is that one must be in need of 24-hour care each day. This is because the nursing home is designed for people who do not need to be admitted in a hospital, and at the same time cannot be cared for at home (Yee-Melichar, Boyle & Flores, 2011). Some of the other requirements are as follows; the patient must need skilled nursing care above the level of just having room to stay, he/she must need these services daily and as an inpatient, the patient must also need continuous supervision, he/she must need some assistance with activities of daily living, like eating, bathing, walking, personal grooming, to mention but a few. Lastly, the services must be ordered by and also provided under the direction of the primary
Both of them in their active years could have saved against the ‘rainy day’. This is because ‘failing to plan, is planning to fail’. Even though they did have some savings, they spent everything on travels and large living, forgetting that no one knows what tomorrow could bring. They planned their retirement quite well but failed to incorporate healthcare or aging into it. They had imagined life without ill-health, and living self-sufficiently in their own home. Their imagined-future had been dashed and they became helpless. They now have to pay with self-funding, relying on family members, Medicaid and veteran’s benefits. Don and Mary could have planned ahead for possible long-term care cost while they were still very much active. Having learnt some hard lessons from the lives of Don and Mary, my plan in preparing for the possibility of needing a long-term care are as follows:
1. Buy long-term care insurance in advance, because, “the younger one is when buying long-term care insurance, the more likely one will be able to get it’.
2. Have more control over my long-term care by having a plan for paying for it privately for as long as possible without allowing that be a burden on my family.
3. Keep my expenses to a minimum after retirement.
4. Lastly, use in-home care for as long as it is