AssistedSeniorLiving was created for helping seniors and their loved ones learn about the many complicated issues surrounding nursing care, so they can make the most educated decision when searching for a nursing home.
Residents of Royal Oak nursing homes receive the highest level of medical, custodial and social care they can find outside a hospital. Nursing patients have health concerns that fall above the ability of lower levels of care to treat. Nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities, primarily focus on helping patients recuperate from hospital stays due to medical trauma or operations and delivering extended health management to patients with severe medical conditions. Facilities employ caregivers that offer a broad range of services and supplies.
Registered and licensed nurses and doctors, certified nursing assistants, specialists, therapists, non-medical personnel, social workers, food service workers and housekeepers are all responsible for keeping nursing homes running smoothly.
Prospective patients looking for residency at a Royal Oak skilled nursing facility can expect to pay around $200 per month below the Michigan median level. Semi-private and private SNF rooms have monthly costs of $6,494 and $7,178, respectively.
Nursing homes do more than just provide the two most general forms of nursing care, short-term and long-term care. Many also offer services that assist family caregivers and their patients. Respite care admits patients for a short stay to balance out the stresses of family caregiving. This break allow patients to receive close attention while their caretaker has time to see to other family needs, work obligations or to relax away from the responsibility of caregiving. Adult day health care offers its patients nursing care and opportunities for social interaction and enrichment. This type of care is used by family caregivers who go to work during the day but do not want to leave their patient alone at home.
Short-term care delivers many forms of therapeutic or rehabilitative therapy to patients who are recovering from acute medical trauma like cardiac arrest, strokes and aneurisms. To gain admittance to a short-term facility, patients must be given a doctor’s orders to seek nursing care while in the hospital. Aside from this prerequisite to short-term stays, hospital care can also have a marked effect on how a patient responds to further medical treatment. The best hospitals in the Royal Oak area, based on patients’ recent hospital experiences, are William Beaumont Hospital and Providence Hospital and Medical Centers. Short-term nursing patients receive care based on a professionally planned path of recuperation. On this basis, patients use sessions of physical, respiratory, auditory, occupational and speech-language therapy to restore certain lost functions. These treatments are prescribed until a patient reaches a level of health appropriate for them to transfer to assisted living or in home care.
Long-term care residents need medium to prolonged health management for progressive, terminal, chronic and serious illnesses like congestive heart failure, cancer, emphysema, Alzheimer’s, dementia and atherosclerosis. Patients are examined by nursing professionals who provide periodic to 24-hour supervision. Other staff members are tasked with fulfilling the social and custodial needs of each patient. Doctors and nurses are readily available to check vital signs and perform medical procedures like wound care, enteral feeding tube, injections, CPR, dialysis, indwelling urinary catheter care and medication adjustment. Non-medical personnel help patients with dressing, toileting, feeding, walking, bathing, general hygiene and other activities of daily living. Social workers, recreational planners and counselors all try to promote psychosocial well-being and independence through spiritual, leisure and self-care activities.
Nursing care costs are a huge burden to many seniors and their families because traditional health insurance does not provide any coverage. For the nursing care residents that do not receive Medicare or Medicaid benefits, about 50 percent of the total, this means they must bear the cost themselves. Families with not very much disposable income often have a hard time paying for extended periods of nursing care. The costs quickly pile up, often leaving them bankrupt with their entire life savings gone. Some families even lose their house trying to pay for long-term care. Proper planning before such a need occurs is the only way to safeguard yourself from the unforeseeable. Long-term care insurance policies are an increasingly popular way to protect yourself from the high cost of prolonged care. An insurance agent will be able to walk your through all the details surrounding this option.
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