The Nursing Home Companion

by Pauline Innis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094140210X
• ISBN13: 9780941402101
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Devon Publishing Company
• Length: 161 Pages

Customer Reviews

Good reference and intro to nursing home life

This little book is written in a straightforward, objective style and takes about an hour and half to read. Its seventeen chapters touch on most of the concerns encountered by residents, visitors, family members, and staff of nursing homes. Addresses of various agencies dealing with elderly care are listed. The author is a freelance writer whose husband was in a nursing home.Most of the content won't be new to anyone with experience of nursing homes but would be useful and maybe inspiring for anyone else. Three areas caught my eye. They are how to relate to residents suffering various debilitations and imminent death, resident loneliness, and spirituality. The author sees loneliness as a significant negative factor in residents' lives and strongly advocates for getting visitors as well as family into the homes. I expect that individual visitors, such as myself, can't do much beyond what they already do, except maybe enlist others to visit the homes. Ms Innis finds the spiritual aspect of life important in promoting physical and mental well being. This may include reliance on religious beliefs and prayer or on general positive thinking.I would recommend this book to any nursing-home visitor or resident as a convenient reminder of things to consider. The agency lists may prove useful, too, although no web sites are given.