Well, 6 months from now we could be at 1 million +. Nursing homes are sad, there is one less than a mile from me that has had 11 covid-19 deaths and 175 cases confirmed between residents and staff. Not sure how it's preventable though. Where do you put these people where they would be safe?
In this case it really just means your COVID protocols are robust. Early detection and isolation of those found to be positive is key for it not to spread. Because the population within long-term care facilities are at risk of complications and higher death rates this is quite important. Once it spreads it can be difficult to contain, the more cases there the higher likelihood of deaths within these facilities. Also part of COVID protocols is ensuring staff are wearing proper PPE and are adhering to safe measures such as switching out the PPE when needed, reducing the amount of people handling an individual who is positive (meaning don't have 5 staff members coming in and out of a room with a positive individual who then goes to another room who is not positive and so on), having checks (though not relying only on temperature) for health so you catch individuals who may have mild symptoms, target test workers who have high contact with these individuals within the long-term care facilities. Even then spread may occur but at least it's better than having little to no protocol in place.
Yes, there have been some major glitches.
If the ship was taking care of people the hospitals weren't getting paid which is both disgusting and horrifying at once. There was a point where Gov Cuomo sort of said it by talking about the empty ship and how there here things that needed to be worked about about input/triage first, not an acceptable rationale.
Make a phone call to whomever you arranged the installation through, and depending on the public health order where you live, maybe the health department. In some areas they are pulling licenses for things like this.
53% of nursing home residents die within 6 months of becoming a resident.
Seems very high. I can't find that stat but according to the National Care Planning Council* the average time a resident spends in a facility is 835 days, so that seems to be in conflict with the 53% stat.
Which states?
Seemed high to me too, but a simple Google search turned up this University of California San Francisco study:
LOL. Nobody agrees. Although this study is 10 years old. My mom was in a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly which is a facility with no more than 6 residents. 3 had been there 5 years. All three were in their mid to late 90's and had dementia. the oldest was 98, and fit as a fiddle physically. She had no living relatives, As the care home owner put it, both her children had already died of old age. My mom was there one year.
And that article was written 10 years ago AND the data was from 1992-2006 so 28-14 years ago. The actual crux of the article being social care is timeless but using specific stats like the PP did with data collected that long ago.....we have no idea if lifespan has adjusted (which I believe it has since the '90s), treatment protocols have adjusted, overall health of the individuals prior to entering the nursing home and so much more. It's entirely possible the number is still roughly accurate. But I wouldn't lay claim to that data as a statement of fact (which is really more of what the other poster's comment sounded like).
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2010/08/9... of participants,study died within six months.
Right -- AND, we can find Google-proof for just about anything. You just tell Google what you want the "proof" to say and BAM, there it is.
) One lived 5 years, two lived 3+ years & the 5th lived about a year. Two of the four were put in a nursing home, because they needed medical care that the family wasn't qualified to render. During this time, I spent many years visiting these facilities & got to know many of the patients. Based on my experience, I find the stat that suggests 53% of nursing home patients die within 6 months impossible to believe. Either it's yet another made up stat to fit an agenda or the 4 nursing homes my family members lived in did a fantastic job at keeping people alive. I do believe that Hospice care probably averages less than 6 months. I know people who lived longer. I also know people who lived much less. Some people live in nursing homes for several years, then have Hospice take over near the end, even though they're still in a nursing home.
