If you are tasked with finding a Kentucky nursing home for your parent or relative, you need all the help you can get. It’s a huge research task! One tool that will save you some time and extra running around is Nursing Home Compare. This…
Medication errors from injectable drugs harm more than a million people and cost an average of $600,000 per hospital each year, a new study proclaims. The study—the first to specifically examine adverse drug events (ADEs) from injectable medication—was published online on December 12, 2012, by…
Many elderly people in Kentucky are mostly able—and prefer—to stay in their own homes rather than move into a nursing home, but they find they cannot prepare their own meals any longer because of arthritis, vision decline, or other physical problems. During their final years,…
If abuse or neglect is occurring and your loved one is a victim then it is important to be patient and encouraging. You need to know what is going on but you cannot scare your loved one into talking to you. Instead, you can consider: …
Most of us in Kentucky have had to carry on with our daily lives despite having gotten far less sleep than we needed. No doubt, it affects our mood, our productivity, and our health—especially if sleep deprivation continues over a number of nights. If you’re…
When your loved one transitions from a private home to a Kentucky nursing home it can feel like she is giving up many rights. There may be, of course, changes that come with communal living, such as common mealtimes and rules. However, there are certain…