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How to choose a quality nursing home during a pandemic SAVVYSENIOR
Dear Savvy Senior, Can you give me some tips on how to pick a good nursing home in the COVID era? BY JIM MILLER My mother had a stroke a while back and can’t use her legs any longer. I’ve been taking care of her at home, but her health has declined to the point that I absolutely can’t do it any longer. Need Help
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Dear Need, COVID-19 has hit nursing homes hard over the past year, making it extremely difficult for people attempting to choose a nursing home during this time. While many eldercare experts suggest avoiding nursing homes during the pandemic if at all possible, some families, like yours, find themselves in difficult situations needing long-term or rehabilitative care for their elder loved one now. To help you find a good nursing home in the COVID era, and avoid a bad one, here are some steps to follow. Make a list: There are several sources you can turn to for referrals to top nursing homes in your area including your mom’s doctor or nearby hospital discharge planner; friends or neighbors who may have had a loved one in a nursing home; and online at Medicare’s nursing home compare tool at Medicare.gov/care-compare. This tool will not only help you locate nursing homes in your area, it also provides a 5-star rating system on recent health inspections, staffing, quality of care, and overall rating. Also keep in mind that it’s
always best to choose a nursing home that’s close to family members and friends who can check in often, because residents
with frequent visitors usually get better care. Do some research: To research the nursing homes on your list, put a call into your long-term care ombudsman. This is a govContinued on page 11
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BOOK REVIEW A Gentleman in Moscow
Published by Amor Towles in 2016, this book is a work of historical fiction. The novel is set in Moscow in 1922 after the Russian Revolution when the Bolsheviks take control. The main character, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, is spared from death due to poem he wrote when he was younger indicating his revolutionary sympathies. Count Rostov is placed under house arrest inside the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. I was enchanted from the beginning and fully engaged all the way through. The reader on Audible is delightful and brought the character to life. In some respects, many of us have been “under house arrest”, confined at home or had our interaction with the world shrink in the last year of pandemic living. Count Rostov’s world became small when confined to a hotel, but he learned to adapt, “if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” Thankfully, our modified living in the last twelve
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