Question

Explain the positive and negative aspects of the living arrangements for the elderly listed below. Be sure to thoroughly evaluate each option.

1. Living in own home
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3. Living with their children
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5. Assisted living facility
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7. Nursing home with intermediate care
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9. Nursing home with skilled nursing care and make recommendations for healthy and disabled elderly

Answer 1

Helping your loved one maitain a sense of dignity can be one of the most diffcult aspect of caregiving.To recognize and appreciate our elders their should be some one to spent time with them, to be polite and to meet their health related needs.In an nursing home with intermediate care settings trained nurses can provide expert medical attention,their nurses are trained in a way to meet every individual needs of patient. Facilities often provides social activities and a sense of community to patients .Relying on a nursing home for your loved one will put fewer demands on family members who may not have the time to care for their relatives.nursing home with intermediate care facilities provide suportive care and nursing supervision under medical supervision.

disadvantages of nursing homes

Uprooting a loved one from the familiarity and comfort of the only home they have known for years can cause depression .Many see it as a final step before the end of their life,so they are fear to move to a nursing home.Older   adults are accustomed to their own routines and it can be hard for them to adjust to a new schedule in a nursing home

LIVING WITH THEIR CHILDREN

Living with children and grand children will be more advisable and happy if elderly is relatively healthy and independent . Senoirs are more safe in home environment but their health condition have to consider first. home environment can stimulate the client positively.

disadvantage

if their children have busy working schedule they would not get proper time to manage their parents especially when parents are sick.

ASSISTED LIVING

ADVANTAGES

-scheduled activities and socialization opportunities

-no need to do home maintenance or choes

DISADVANTAGES

they lack the extensive medical care that nursing home offer.

for some Seniors adjusting to life in an assisted living facility is challenging due to group environment