Many nursing homes are working to improve their residents' living conditions. Sometimes it even saves them money. Depending on where they're taken, you might not have that option. Led in large part by the nation's nurses, family advocates are working to change that. A Patient's Guide from Diagnosis to Recovery' to find out what you should know before you go 'under the knife'.
Good ones are hard to find, and harder to keep.
After years of ambivalence, alarms are sounding over the sorry state of our nation's nursing homes. An aging population demands better alternatives. Depression is understandable, but is also quite distressing for patients and their caregivers. All rights reserved.