Boston Nursing Homes

Boston nursing homes provide a residence for seniors that need constant nursing and care. Often, patients cannot complete activities of daily living by themselves because of severe mental or physical disabilities. Other patients are under care to rehabilitate from medical crises. Many nursing homes specialize in certain conditions. At their most general, Boston skilled nursing facilities provide either short-term or long-term care.

Nursing homes offer the general services of therapy, medical treatment and companionship. Their staff of physicians, nurses and non-medical personnel are there to take care of your specific physical and psychological needs. Short-term care focuses on rehabilitative services. Short-term patients usually expect to recover from medical events like strokes, aneurisms and falls, so they can return to their normal lives. If they still need periods of treatment after being discharged from nursing care, they sometimes seek assisted living or in home care. Long-term patients need moderate to continuous levels of supervision. They have major health conditions like brain damage, Parkinson’s, dementia, Alzheimer’s or general physical decline. Nursing care staff try to maintain their current level of health and make their stay as comfortable as possible. They aid long-term patients with everything from medicine dosage and blood testing to activities of daily living like bathing, eating, walking and using the bathroom. Non-medical personnel also offer a degree of companionship to long-term patients, involving anything from conversing with them and watching television together to playing board games.

Long-term nursing care stays usually occur because of deterioration in a senior’s medical condition. Most short-term nursing stays happen as a result of an acute medical event that required a hospitalization. They will often need further treatment to recover. It is their doctor’s prerogative to require a nursing home stay. Getting good recommendations and quality care during the first stages of recovery is more likely at a top hospital. In Boston, Massachusetts, the top hospitals based on patient’s hospital experiences are Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Boston nursing home costs are much higher than the national average and are above the Massachusetts state median. Semi-private and private nursing home rooms have a monthly cost of $10,038 and $10,980, respectively.

Seniors and their families that need to turn to nursing care often do so without much preparation. However, around 70 percent of seniors aged 65 and over will need long-term care during their lifetime. It is important to us that seniors have the opportunity to find the best care for their specific financial, cost and convenience needs. Our site wants to give seniors and their loved ones all the information possible to enhance their understanding of the process and present all their options for quality care.