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2. Assisted Living vs. Nursing Home: How Do They Differ?

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   A nursing home may be better if you need 24-hour medical care. ... Meals are prepared by a kitchen staff, and the staff take care of laundry and cleaning for the residents. Recreational activities

3. What Are ADLs and How They’re Measured - WebMD

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   A full score of 60 points indicates complete independence. Barthel Index. This 100-point scale assesses 10 activities in people who have had a stroke. Each activity is scored between 0 and 10 or 0 ...

4. Nursing home - Wikipedia

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   A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. [1] Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and ...

5. Nursing Home Care: Services, Costs, and More Information - WebMD

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   The services nursing homes offer vary from facility to facility. Services often include: Room and board. Monitoring of medication. Personal care (including dressing, bathing, and toilet assistance ...

6. Director of nursing (long-term care facility) - Wikipedia

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   A director of nursing (DON) is a registered nurse who supervises the care of all the patients at a health care facility. The director of nursing has special training beyond the training of a staff nurse for the position that pertains to health care management, and in some places, a director of nursing must hold a special license in order to be employed in that capacity.

7. Matron - Wikipedia

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   The chief nurse, in other words the person in charge of nursing in a hospital and the head of the nursing staff, is also known as the Chief Nursing officer or Chief Nursing Executive, senior nursing officer, [1] matron, [2] nursing officer, [3] or clinical nurse manager in UK English; the head nurse or director of nursing in US English, [4] [5 ...