Living Well in a Nursing Home: Everything You and Your Folks Need to Know

by Xenia Vosen and Lynn Dickinson

Book Overview

While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs that a family member needs extra support, determining whether in-home care is a viable option, the different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897934601
• ISBN13: 9780897934602
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Hunter House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

excellent text and very good resource

I purchased Dickinson and Vosen's "Living Well in a Nursing Home" with an open mind. As a clinical psychologist with geriatric training, I found that this was an excellent book that covered most all of the relevant topics in a professional manner. As a person with an aging parent, and as one who suffers from multiple sclerosis, my mother and I never know which one of us may first be in a nursing home. Having this resource, both of us having read it, along with caregivers, such as my wife, it is an outstanding and fairly comprehensive, yet very readable book. I strongly recommend reading this, probably a bit more geared for users than professionals, but, I think that it's an outstanding resource for both!!!

Essential Information

Lacking any current need for such information, I picked up this book just to see how it was organized. The contents seemed so well thought out I decided to read a little so I could recomend it in the future to family or friends when the need arose. I was hooked from the start and couldn't put it down! Who would have thought a book on Nursing Homes could be so compelling!! Not me. But it is. I love the straight-forward, no nonsense approach to the subject and found the information to be in line with the things I've learned from my own experience in dealing with aging parents and dying loved ones. And, it prepares us for our own aging. It should be read by everyone; there's no need to wait!

Extremely Helpful Book

This is the kind of book everyone with aging parents or other loved ones should read. You never knows when you might find yourself having to make the decision to place a loved one in a long term care facility. Better to know ahead of time what you are getting into so you can plan accordingly. If there is no time to plan, this book can still give you some nuts and bolts advice. Benefit from the writers knowledge, and learn from the characters situation. By Susan Berg author of, Adorable Photographs of Our Baby: Meaningful, Mind Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, Their Loved Ones, and Involved Professionals

chicken soup for the nursing home!

i picked up this book because i'm a fan of the author, and boy am i glad i did. while i am not, currently, in the position to be thinking about either of my parents transitioning to an assisted living facility--or to transition myself--this is the type of book that it pays to read *before* you need it. vosen's experience coupled with dickinson's ability to address complex emotional situations is a one-two punch that makes this book a knock-out. not only is everything you could possibly need to know about assisted living covered, but it's done so in a way that is engaging and will make you feel like you've just read a self-help book (and i mean that in a good way!). moreover, while this is intended as a informational book, the real-life "case studies" are so compelling that i found myself reading to the very end to see what happened to this delightful cast of characters. even if you never find yourself in need of the practical information related to long-term care facilities, you'll benefit from the information related to aging, the elderly, family and interpersonal relationships. buy extra copies of this book to send to your siblings and friends.