### social organization | institution:

Nursing home
* All nursing homes have physicians that attend patients within their facility.
* Most nursing homes have special dementia care units.
* Some nursing homes have individual telephones while others have none
  - respite care programs
* Some nursing homes offer respite care
  - specialized services for people with memory impairment and dementia
  - provide adult day care services
  - segment their rates according to the kind of care a person requires
* account for the greatest share of public and private spending on long-term care.
* aim to keep all beds full.
* are a critical component of community care
  - storehouse of oral historians
  - an inhumane solution to personal care needs
  - capable of caring for individuals with a wide range of medical conditions
  - cash cows for their corporate owners
  - one of the nation's most heavily regulated industries
  - residential facilities and are apartments under the common dictionary definition
  - special homes for their residents
  - there for people with chronic or terminal illnesses
* can be lonely any time of year, even more so during the holidays
  - often be lonely places
  - present new obstacles of loss of privacy, respect, and dignity
  - sometimes have serious outbreaks of scabies
* have a great impact on clients and their families, both financially and emotionally
  - limited number of beds
  - various names
* hire nurses to provide direct medical care to patients.
* play a very major role in the lives of families with aged, and infirmed parents.
* provide both short and long term nursing and rehabilitative care
  - comprehensive care to individuals, including daily nursing care
* provide different levels of care, including skilled, intermediate, and custodial care
  - medical care as a primary service
* provide skilled nursing care
  - services and chronic custodial care
* report a lower stress level in nursing home staff as well.
* take disabled people who are neither elderly or dying.
* tell people they have to transfer from the bed to a chair before they can leave.
* use consultants to provide much of their dietetic supervision.
* vary in the services they provide, the quality of care, and their costs.

### social organization | institution | penal facility:

Correctional institution
* Most correctional institutions require random drug tests for their employees.
* Some correctional institutions employ aspects of both direct and indirect supervision.
* differ in size, type, population, and staffing.
* penal facility

### social organization | institution | penal facility | correctional institution:

Pokey
* is really a combination between a pet dog and a pet pony, or horse.
* likes to hunt at night and sleep all day.
* male springer spaniel.

Political institution
* are a superstructure on the economic foundation
  - the formal organizations of people and rules within a society
* distributes power and makes decisions.

Postsecondary institution
* do tend to be more complex than most organizations.
* have an important role to play in reducing loan defaults.

Private institution
* charge fees for all forms of education.
* tend to have boards of trustees.
* use endowments to reduce tuition cost to students.

Public institution
* are, of course, larger than any single individual.
* have a unique and essential role in higher education.