Going into a nursing home can be a frightening experience. It can be made less scary by asking questions and choosing the right nursing home for your family.
No one wants to go into a nursing home.
When we think about what happens in them, we usually imagine nursing homes to be sterile places where people are sent off to be isolated and alone. That stereotype comes to us from the distant past. It is a bad caricature of what nursing homes are like today.
However, nursing homes do come in all sorts of different varieties with many different levels of care and interactions between staff and residents. It is important that the nursing home you choose is the right one for you.
That can be accomplished by asking appropriate questions before deciding on a nursing home, as Next Avenue points out in “18 Questions to Ask Any Nursing Home.”
While the questions to ask are too numerous to list here, it is important to understand that the most fundamental questions are not about cost, although that is important. Instead, the most important questions to ask are about how patients live, what activities are available to patients and how staff helps patients with those activities.
The answers to those questions are what truly determine what quality of life will be like in a nursing home and how happy you might be there as a resident.
Before deciding on a nursing home, take a look at the questions to ask and actually ask them of the nursing homes you are considering. That way you can make sure that you are choosing the right place for you.
Reference: Next Avenue (March 15, 2017) “18 Questions to Ask Any Nursing Home.”
