Challenging Behaviors; Offers numerous tips for problems associated to symptoms of dementia. (These can be easily modified to fit most situtations.)
Nursing Home Issues: Numerous documents on what to look for when shopping for a Nursing Home. Includes such things as 'What To Look For In Special Care Units', How To Handle Difficult Visits, How To Prepare Them For The Move, and many more.
This Web site enables you to get information on every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the COUNTRY. You can locate nursing homes in your area and find information about compliance with Medicare and Medicaid regulations, including the results of the most recent Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) Database and about particular types of problems found in the nursing homes you are looking at. This is an absolutely outstanding site and an enormous help to any caregiver needing Nursing Home information! (this is a link so you will have to hit the 'back' button to return here)
Health Care Directory; This directory has information on Medical POA, Legal Issues, Long-Distance Caregiving, and Advanced Medical Directives.
End Of Life Issues: Documents that discuss the dying process & what you can expect. Information includes; The Dying Experience, Death--What You Can Expect and Facing Grief and Loss, plus others.
Advanced Medical Directives (Information concerning end of life issues, such as; what is DNR etc. Has numerous sample documents to download or copy/print out).
If You Have Memory Loss...What You Should Know
Links (other great sites and listings of chatrooms)
Search Engines. If you can't find what you're looking for here...then try these.
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