(Durant, OK. ) Nursing Home is a phrase that most people would not like to speak of nor want to hear in their own home. Growing up the word nursing home meant dying. People felt that if someone were to go into the nursing home, they would go there to die. Time has changed, and now the phrase “nursing home” is not used in the sense of dying but meant to be used as a place to live.
Nursing Home is a place that people go, especially for elderly people, to get that extra care they need that is outside a hospital and unable to receive in their own home in the community. Those that enter the nursing home are seeking help with certain things that may seem difficult to them to do on their own. And because of those things they move into the nursing home to live and receive that special care.
When a resident enters the nursing home, they are entering into a new residential setting. They have moved into their new home, with new friends, and a new environment. Everything becomes new to them, including letting others do for them as they would do for themselves. We all have done something new in our lives but, whenever people start something new it can be a scary thing. As an elderly person, they have done many new things in their lives and being in a nursing home is a new thing that no one dreams of doing.
Long- Term Care Nursing Homes should not be a place where people fear of going, when all they want to do is live. Long-term care facilities are to provide quality of life and quality of care to those that reside there. To make sure that your loved ones are receiving the quality of care that they should, it’s best to know the laws and regulations of the nursing home and their policy and procedures too.
To learn more about nursing homes and how to choose one for your loved one(s), or even to become an ombudsman volunteer at one, contact the SODA Area Agency on Aging Ombudsman Supervisors Tiffany Wingfield at 580-775-7478; Gina Smith at 580-775-7794 or Senior Info. Line 1-800-211-2116 or write to them P.O. Box 709 Durant, OK. 74702. Ombudsman Supervisors are available to speak to your group or organization upon request.
