I just listened to an amazing interview with Dr. Bill Thomas is an authority on nursing home care and the author of the website changingaging.org. He has some great innovative ideas on what nursing homes and the best way to care for older adults. Next, he threw out the institutional […] Read more »
Step 1: Decide if a Nursing Home Is Necessary – US News and World Report
US News and World Report has some great information on how to make the decision to put a loved one in a care facility. The article provides information on steps to take to when thinking about such a move. This is a multipart series and should be required reading for […] Read more »
Person-centred’ care works better for dementia | Life and style | BMJ Group
The Guardian on Thursday had an interesting column on new dementia patient care research that suggests that people with dementia become less agitated when the care facility used a person-centered approach to care rather than the normal regimented systems used by a lot of nursing homes in the UK and […] Read more »
Interviews
I finished speaking with Susan Robison, interim Director of Career Services at WVU. Susan was my main guidance counselor at WVU during undergrad and has been a good friend ever since. She hit my radar last autumn during Homecoming when we spoke for about 20 minutes on the new charity, […] Read more »