The aide shortage in long-term care is already here, said Mills of Renaissance Village. We try to apply an individual plan of care. But the way we're reimbursed, we can't do that. The industry needs to consider a different approach to training and education, Mills said, and nursing schools should offer a specialized degree in nursing home care. We go to seminars on how to satisfy the government.
Negativity makes matters worse.
Adverse publicity for nursing home care is going to adversely affect us all,'' she said. Every child should have a subject in grade school where they have to touch old people.'' We must develop a generation of children who focus on the personalization of nursing home care, rather than the bureaucracy, Ransomer said. I think the secret is in the human issues. We all need love, to give and take, to be understood. We think too much in terms of technology,'' he said.