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How To Find A Nursing Home
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How To Find A Nursing Home

Your Step By Step Guide To Finding a Nursing Home
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 7/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Find a Nursing Home
  • Nursing Home
  • Nursing Home Basics
  • Nursing Home Tips and Lessons

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Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 1h 4m total length

  • Introduction5:09

    Plan ahead to find the best nursing home for your loved one by researching options, visiting facilities, and asking the right questions.

  • Part 1: Questions You Need to Answer Before You Begin Searching for a Nursing Ho4:58

    Identify the essential information to collect before researching nursing home facilities, including care needs, medical and mental health factors, personal preferences, assets, and monthly income.

  • Part 2: Why it is Important for You to Know Your Budget3:20

    Know how your budget and asset mix—fixed assets, monthly income, and nursing home costs—determine how long funds last and influence private-pay and Medicaid decisions.

  • Part 3: What to Look for in a Nursing Home: Overview18:40

    Learn how to evaluate nursing homes by researching care needs, Medicaid beds, staff ratios, safety, meals, activities, visits, and total costs.

  • Part 4: How to Compare Nursing Home Options: Research3:03

    Compare nursing home options by using diverse research tools—online history, official sites and brochures, magazines, lawsuits, ombudsman, BBB, ratings, interviews, and site visits—to verify consistent findings.

  • Part 5: How to ‘Shop’ for a Nursing Home: Site Visit7:45

    Learn to conduct an unannounced nursing home site visit to evaluate exterior, grounds, safety, staff and resident interactions, meals, activities, rooms, and transition policies.

  • Part 6: What You Need to Do Before Your Loved One Becomes a Nursing HomeResident16:02

    Prepare estate planning documents and health and financial powers of attorney with an elder law attorney, ensuring capacity to sign. Understand HEPA privacy, DNR, guarantor issues, and hospital discharge timing.

  • Conclusion5:05

    Learn practical steps to find a nursing home for your loved one, including researching elder law guidance, asking key questions, and ensuring dignified, professional care.

Requirements

  • No experience necessary - All levels welcome - Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced

Description

If you want to learn how to find the right nursing home for your loved one, then get "How To Find a Nursing Home" written by someone with real life experience in this topic.

How to Find a Nursing Home is a ‘must read’ for anyone, who is facing the issue of placing a loved one in a nursing home. In this practical guide, an elder law attorney gives you step by step information about how to make the best decisions for your loved one. This guide includes:

- an informative overview which explains how individuals, professional caregivers, and geriatric care managers, will benefit from this guide.

- An explanation of why it is important to conduct your research and have a plan before your loved one needs care.

- a Nursing Home Worksheet which helps you answer the important medical and financial questions about your loved one before you begin researching for your loved one; which will help you to save time and narrow down the available options.

- an in depth discussion about finances and how to gauge how long your loved ones’ assets will last.

- insightful information about how to choose a nursing home based upon location, cleanliness, state rating, activities, meals, in-facility doctor access, staff to patient ratio and, costs.

- specific sources and resources for researching, rating, and comparing nursing home facilities, based upon the types of care your loved one needs.

- a step by step process for conducting a site visit of the nursing home facilities you are considering.

- information about the types of legal documents your loved one should consider, and discuss with an elder law attorney, before becoming a nursing home resident.

- a straightforward discussion about your rights as a loved one, and how to avoid being personally responsible for your loved ones nursing home bills.

- an overview of some common medical issues which may arise while your loved one is a resident, health care directives, and ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ (DNR) documents.

HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Who this course is for:

  • Any person who believes that their loved one will need nursing home care

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