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Assuming a dementia patient can live in a nursing home (correct me if I’m wrong, please), do any specific regulations apply regarding who may be placed in the same room? Or is room assignment within nursing homes based on availability for incoming patients? I am asking these questions specifically in regards to dementia patients. Thank you!

This is just a hypothetical question.

Let’s say your grandmother was completely "with it" in the head (no dementia/alzheimers requiring special care), but she had injured herself and she lived alone…but now, she requires daily care from someone to be able to stay at home.

Would you let her go into a nursing home, or would you see to it that she was taken care of to where she never had to go into a nursing home?
I guess I should have mentioned this before.

This scenario happened to me…and I refused to let my grandmother go into a nursing home.

Nothing against nursing homes that have the right staff…but we know how bad it can get with the wrong staff.

Also, she would have rather died than go into one, I’m sure.

In my situation, I quit my job and moved in with her, and was her caregiver 24/7 for 10 months…then she unexpectedly had a stroke and passed away 3 days later.

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I am considering moving to Spokane, WA and am wondering if anyone who works there as a CNA can tell me what a nursing assistant makes in a nursing home? I also have my nurses’ delegation and fundamentals of caregiving, so I could also work in an adult family home as well. So if anyone could tell me the average salary of CNAs in either nursing homes or in adult family homes, that would be great. Thank you.

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I am considering moving to Spokane, WA and am wondering if anyone who worked there as a CNA can tell me what a nursing assistant makes in a nursing home? I also have my nurses’ delegation and fundamentals of caregiving, so I could also work in an adult family home. So if anyone could tell me the average salary of CNAs in either nursing homes or in adult family homes, that would be great. Thank you.

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to keep the person clean, bathed, comfortable, well fed? The basic needs – were they well taken care of? Why or why not? The amount of money spent by each patient would buy an all expense paid luxury cruise. What are they getting at the home? What can anybody do, or what have they done to make Nursing Homes good?http://yellowwallpaper.net/blog1/category/caregiving/

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If you were in your seventies and a bad surgery left you confined to a wheelchair but you were still sharp in the mind, but you could not provide personal care for yourself nor live alone anymore, would you expect your kids to take care of you?

Also if you had three children and 1 took you into their home and gave up working to care for you for ten years while the others just made their token twice a year visits, and NEVER offered any respite to you so your caregiving child could have a break would you feel anger towards the other children?

Would it affect how you divided up the inheritance for your children keeping in mind if the caregiving child had not taken you into there home with the cost of nursing homes the whole estate would have been gone long ago anyway?

Just curious
I guess I should ass that I have been caring for my grandma for 10 years she is a paraplegic. When I took her in my home I thought she would walk again like with her last surgery on the tumor. My grandma was always there for me like I went and lived with her when I was 17 to get away from all the chaos of my parents divorce issues. SHe was my one constant in my life. My husband adores her as do I, it;s just I have been doing this since I was 25 and I even got married five years ago and now I have a daughter and I just want to be able come and go and leave without it being a once a year thing because of all the planning it takes to go out of town. I just want my freedom yet I could not bare to put her in a home. She gave me the money when she sold her home so my husband and I could use it as a down payment on our house. I never asked her or made her do this. She said becuase I do not pay into retirement and ss that she wanted to do this for me, now my incles hate me and hardly speak 2 h
they hardly ever visited her and when I would get burned out I kid you not they would say well I dont know what to tell you but put her in a nursing home becuase we are busy raising our families. I never asked about a will or seeing an attorney and then adter about three years into her care my uncle started calling all the time trying to get my grandma into the lawyers office to make a livng trust. Then skip to the eight year and I got burned out and said I need help I am burned out and I said just to see what they would say "I found a place for grandma and it;s not like a nursing home and she loves it but it will cost all of us 200 a month on top of what she makes to have her stay there. They are all very well off I would add and they all had there excuses as to why they could not. In fact one of there wives asked "couldnt you just take evrything out of her name? All they wanted was her money. Ill be honest I never started this for money or expected it but as the years progressed on
and they lived all their lives I became very very bitter. Sorry so long dont blame if you didn;t read this all I think I just needed to vent. I actually feel lighter. Thanks to those who have read.

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Many many years ago, when my grandmother retired, she made bad judgement to sign on to Medicare Plan A instead of B, which has given her many limitations to just how much medical assistance she is covered with. It’s not something she can undo unless she pays thousands and thousands of dollars to the government. She is extremely difficult to care for alone, especially now that she is immobile and deals with other health problems in addition to Alzheimer’s. Nursing homes are run poorly and do not truly take good care of the elderly, especially in her condition, so right now that’s not even an option. I’d like to know if there are any affordable caretakers or programs that provide personal assistance for her with Medicare Part A? Thanks.

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Okay so for a while I’ve been thinking there had to be something with blue eyes that made people get alzheimers. I used to work in a few nursing homes in the " special care" Unit and I remember most all of them had blue eyes. Then I started thinking about all the people I personaly new that got the disease. All of them had blue eyes. So I’ve been saying over and over that blue eyes has something to do with it. I’m not saying every person with blue eyes will get it but there is a tie somewhere and I know it! SO I set out to look for one. Here is what I found…

* Alzheimers usually starts in the Memory and learning part of the brain.

-Alzheirmers is a disease caused by plaques and tangles on the brain
* PLAQUES- build up between nerve cells deposits of protien.

* TANGLES- form inside dying cells

Okay with that said…

* researchers tested a group of people with blue eyes and 3/4 of them had a DNA change in the HERC2 gene.
_ this gene has nothing to with eye color

* The DNA difference in the HERC2 results in the shutting down of the OCA2 gene
_The OCA2 gene produces a protien called Melanin that
Is responsible for the pigment of your eyes. If it is shut down by the
DNA difference in the HERC2 no pigment with be sent to the eye thus
Blue eyes

EX. -OCA2 that hasn’t been shut down releases pigment, result brown
eyes. The more Melanin produced the darker brown.

-OCA2 thats been shutdown doesn’t release any Melanin thus no
pigment thus blue eyes.
* DNA difference in the HERC2 causes transcription Factors (TF) to bind where one didnt before. Some TF’s turn on NEAR BY genes and some turn them OFF.

Temp lobe-located either side of brain above ears =MEMORIES AND LEARNING among other things

Occipital lobe- located at the back of the brain = VISION among other things
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SO here is what I was thinking….The people with blue eyes that have this Different strain of DNA in their HERC2 gene has caused the OCA2 gene to shut down. The shutting of this gene makes the brain assume its dead, as I said before that is where tangles that cause alzheimers form. Once the HERC2 gene sends out the TF’s they could turn off other genes the tangles then form there. Also the HERC2 gene sends out an unidentified protein; could these be the start of the plaques? The HERC2 gene fires off these FT’s to parts of the brain they haven’t been before and they can turn genes off soo the Temp. Lobe is right next door to the Occipital Lobe where all this is going on. It is possible that those TF’s land in the Temp lobe ,turn off , none other than the parts of the brain that control memory and learning. Once they are turned off, again the brain assumes they are dead and tangles start to form…in a nutshell….alzheimers!

So what do you think?? Please leave me a comment and let me know if you see the similarities.

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http://www.msplinks.com/http://www.thetech.org/genetics/news.php?id=76

http://www.msplinks.com/http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp

I’m not saying only people with blue eyes will get alzheimer’s , and I’m not saying people with brown eyes wont get it. Just asking about the connection between the two.

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My mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s and is getting to the stage where she is forgetting the people/family members she does not see everyday. It will not be long before we have to place her in a home. How do I research nursing homes that would be the best fit for her? I really need some good advice……

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RN with 32 years of Nursing Experience seeking information on any jobs in Nursing Consultant Field in Long Term Care (Nursing Homes) in Mississippi. Familiar with MS state Board of Health Guidelines in this field. Currently a Director of Nursing in 80 bed facility with 20 bed Alzheimers Unit

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