Users of home-based nursing care live longer than nursing home residents, study shows

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Half of over-55s would move into smaller accessible homes but housing shortage remains

NL Times

Nearly half of homeowners in the Netherlands who are aged 55 and older are interested in moving within the next two years, but a shortage of suitable housing will likely force many of them to stay put. A study released by mortgage advisory De Hypotheker found that those in the over-55 age group have a strong preference for smaller, age-friendly …

Housing Age 12 Percent De Rijke Suitable Homes

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Aging population drives household growth, single-person homes on the rise

NL Times

The Netherlands is projected to see a significant rise in households over the coming decades, reaching 9 million by 2035 and nearly 10 million by 2070. This growth is largely driven by the country’s aging population, particularly the increasing number of single-person households among older individuals, according to Statistics Netherlands. The number of households where the reference person is 65 …

Growth Netherlands Number Older Cbs Expected 2070

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Beleagered care minister warns of huge staff shortage by 2035

Dutch News

The Netherlands is expected to have a shortage of 266,000 care workers by 2035, according to new figures presented to MPs by health minister Fleur Agema. Agema, who said staff shortages are her “biggest priority”, said she wants to lower the administrative burden on workers by using AI and innovative medical tools. However, earlier this week, Agema was confronted with …

Staff Shortage Agema Beleagered Care

1 month ago

Survey shows that most elderly people in the Netherlands are very happy with their life

NL Times

A significant majority of elderly people in the Netherlands feel very happy in life, a survey ordered by the elderly organization ANBO-PCOB showed. The average number that participants gave while grading their lives is 7.6 The results of the “Elderly Happiness Barometer,” show that there are large differences between elderly people in the Netherlands. Elderly people who are not limited …

Netherlands Life Elderly Elderly People

China's ageing population fuels 'silver economy' boom, but profits can prove elusive

New Indian Express

HONG KONG: Every Wednesday, retiree Zhang Zhili travels an hour by bus to an education center, drawn by the pulsing rhythms of the African drum she plays there in a classroom filled with fellow retirees whose hands move in unison, every beat lifting her spirits. “To love ourselves.” Many older Chinese are looking beyond traditional nursing homes, afraid of abandonment …

China Services Care Chinese Beijing Older Older Adults

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Long-Distance Caregiving: Ways To Care For Elderly Parents Living Far Away

News 18

Many people live far from their family or friends and require assistance. There are several methods to provide caregiving from a distance, including emotional support, scheduling medical appointments, researching community programs, visiting when possible to give day-to-day carers a respite, and managing finances. Long-Distance Carers Can Use the Following Tactics and Tools to Stay Connected: Make a list of necessary …

Care

4 months, 1 week ago

The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home

NPR

The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home toggle caption Tim Evans/for NPR RUGBY, N.D. — Cindie Haakenson was relieved when a room opened up at the Heart of America long-term care center this past spring. “We’ve got farmland that we own we could sell, but it’s like giving away part of your legacy.” toggle caption …

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6 months, 1 week ago

New eldercare hubs needed to better serve rural residents

China Daily

Li Min/China Daily Three elderly women from rural areas now living in Beijing with their children were chatting in a corner of our community square recently after finishing their routine square dancing one evening. The social insurance program is open to all rural residents and the pension amount it offers is much lower than urban pension funds. The pension amount, …

Insurance China Rural Elderly Pension Rural Areas Residents

7 months ago

Once wary, student now keen on elderly nursing career

China Daily

Wu said the final competition set different scenarios to test competitors' skills and medical knowledge. "We were also required to assist seniors with Parkinson's disease in their rehabilitation training, and we had to transfer elderly people from their beds to wheelchairs and have them take their pills under other test scenarios," she said. "Acting as a nurse in the hospital …

Elderly Nursing

8 months, 1 week ago

Column: As some nursing homes cry poverty, what can be done about increased staffing requirements?

LA Times

If you suspect that you or a loved one might one day end up in a nursing home, and you breathed a sigh of relief when the Biden administration announced increased staffing requirements on April 22, you may need to pull a Larry David and curb your enthusiasm. Read his other columns Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of a healthcare …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs

The Independent

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Do we simply not care about old people?

Salon

The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. “I think the pandemic helped reinforce images of older people as sick, frail, and isolated — as people who aren’t like the rest of us,” he said. It’s really hard to …

Health Pandemic Care Aging Covid Old Older

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

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1 year, 6 months ago

More positive outcomes when elders are treated locally: Study

Hindustan Times

Older persons with health concerns frequently require some amount of intermediate monitoring, care, and treatment. "Intermediate care units" are primarily intended to replace an acute hospital admission, but are occasionally also used following admission. Fewer deaths and fewer hospital readmissions "All Norwegian municipalities had to set up 'municipal acute units' following the healthcare decentralization and coordination reform in 2012," says …

Health Healthcare Research Service Hospital Units Norway

1 year, 7 months ago

What do retirement homes offer?

The Hindu

Communities designed, managed and operated to fulfil the needs of senior citizens are a relatively new industry in India. Hence, residents of independent living communities in India can depend on a single service provider to fulfil all these needs. In India, good senior living communities must also give residents and their loved ones staying far away, the peace of mind …

India Support Homes Care Senior Citizens Residents Need

1 year, 9 months ago

Aged care design need a rethink and these experts say working with older Australians will help

ABC

Aged care in Australia is at a crisis point. Some say the problems in Australia's aged care crisis could be addressed by considering the experience of older Australians. "This is not a good service model," Mike Rungie, the director of the Global Centre for Modern Ageing and a former aged care CEO, tells ABC RN's Big Ideas. This would prioritise …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch

Salon

WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she'd lived comfortably for six years. In Iowa, 13 of the 15 nursing homes that closed in 2022 were in rural areas, according to the Iowa Health Care Association. Lori Porter, chief executive officer of the National Association of …

Health Homes Industry Rural Workers Rural Areas Iowa

1 year, 11 months ago

Tens of thousands of serious incidents reported to aged care watchdog under new scheme

ABC

Tens of thousands of serious incidents were reported to the aged care watchdog under a new scheme established to prevent and reduce abuse and neglect in residential facilities. Key points: The Serious Incident Response Scheme was set-up to report incidents at government subsidised aged care services Some 37,800 "serious incident notifications" were received during the last financial year More than …

Quality Care Incidents Notifications Report Commission Scheme

2 years ago

Care homes have beds but no staff, government warned over £200m plan

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The staffing “crisis” in the home care sector means the government’s …

Health Homes Independent Patients Social Care Capacity Nhs

2 years ago

Care homes in crisis as number of 'inadequate' ratings surge since pandemic

The Telegraph

Charities have warned of a crisis in care homes after the number of "inadequate" ratings surged following the pandemic. 'Too little' done to help social care recover from pandemic Caroline Abrahams, the charity director at Age UK, said: “There’s no real sense the Government has a grip on the problem. “Too little has been done to help social care recover …

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2 years, 1 month ago

I Brought My Mom Home To Help Her Die. I Had No Idea What I Was In For — Or What I'd Gain.

Huff Post

"It rained every single day, but that didn't stop us from doing anything," says the author of this 1988 trip to Boston with her mother. “Mom,” I started, trying to hold myself and my voice together, “if we do the home hospice thing, I know you don’t like the idea of medicine but I can’t sit by and watch you …

Care Help Told Mom My Mom My Husband My Mother

2 years, 3 months ago

Regional WA's aged care homes capping intake amid ongoing staffing crisis affecting country

ABC

Elderly residents of a small WA town may be left travelling hundreds of kilometres for adequate care, in what unions say is a growing problem across regional Australia. Key points: Regional aged care homes are having to reduce their intake of patients amid ongoing staff shortages Kojonup's aged care facility will not take any more new patients Kojonup Shire president …

Care Smith Ms Smith Aged Regional Shire Staffing Crisis

2 years, 3 months ago

Life expectancy tool may improve quality of life for dementia patients

Hindustan Times

A mortality prediction model for dementia patients may aid clinicians in framing discussions with patients and families about end-of-life care options such as at-home care and nursing homes. Life expectancy tool may improve quality of life for dementia patients Researchers led by UC San Francisco followed 4,267 participants with probable dementia who were not residents of nursing homes in their …

Life Dementia Patients Nursing Homes Dementia Patients Prediction Model

2 years, 7 months ago

Aged care homes don't need 'evidence' on food spending to receive government funding, with a third still spending less than $10 a day

ABC

Aged care operators will receive an extra $3 billion in government funding to improve food, but have been told they do not need to provide "spreadsheets or evidence" of how much they are spending in order to get the cash. Key points: The federal government announced a $10 increase in the basic daily fee it pays to nursing homes for …

Health Food Homes Quality Funding Beer Care

2 years, 8 months ago

Aged care at home service created by town of Bell sets new benchmark for locals looking after locals

ABC

With its wide streets, coffee shop, a quintessential pub and affordable property, Bell on Queensland's Western Downs is the kind of country town older residents never want to leave. Key points: Bell Cares is a community-managed aged care service that finds locals to care for the town's elderly residents It uses the online platform Mable to match elderly people with …

Elderly Work Bell Town Joan Aged Bryce

2 years, 9 months ago

Nursing home care, funding system need overhaul, report says

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic. “The public is so concerned about the quality of care that most people …

Care Staffing Report Residents Nursing Homes Grabowski

2 years, 10 months ago

SD nursing homes still struggling with staffing shortages

Associated Press

— A new report from the American Health Care Association shows just how challenging the coronavirus pandemic has been for long-term care providers who have struggled with staffing and other issues. During the course of the pandemic, South Dakota nursing homes have lost over 1,000 staff members, or about 14% of their workforce, according the association’s report. South Dakota hospitals …

Homes Care South Dakota Medicaid Staff Nursing Homes Sd Nursing

2 years, 11 months ago

National housing shortage to worsen in the coming years: Researchers

NL Times

The housing shortage in the Netherlands will likely increase for at least three years, experts at consultancy firm Capital Value expect. For example, housing associations could build 250,000 social homes annually if the landlord levy is completely abolished, the researchers suggest. The bank calculated that the new construction of around 14,000 new mid-range rental homes per year is financially feasible …

Homes Housing Housing Associations

2 years, 11 months ago

Home care sector facing massive recruitment crisis, committee told

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Home care services are facing …

Recruitment Work Workers Care Committee Sector Told

3 years ago

As Omicron moves in, Australia is facing a predictable tragedy in aged care

ABC

Today, there are tens of thousands of elderly people sitting alone in their bedrooms in nursing homes — some with COVID, more being tested, others stuck there because of management's well-founded fears. The Aged Care Royal Commission set out comprehensive recommendations to avert such a disaster by increasing staff numbers and paying proper wages, ensuring up-to-date vaccinations and giving families …

Homes Care Nursing Covid Residents Victoria Staff

3 years, 1 month ago

Covid deaths in nursing homes back to pre-vaccines 2nd wave level, expert says

NL Times

One in five vaccinated nursing home residents who contracted the coronavirus in recent months has died. This autumn, the total number of infections in nursing homes was considerably lower than last autumn, during the second wave. "We've known from the start that vaccines are not 100 percent effective," said the professor, who is also a member of the Outbreak Management …

Nursing Nursing Homes Nursing Home Residents Hertogh

3 years, 2 months ago

Care homes treated as ‘afterthought’ during first wave of pandemic, finds report

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A joint inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee and the Health and Social …

Homes Social Discharge Social Care Report Covid Nhs

3 years, 3 months ago

Ghost towns: Nursing home staffing falls amid pandemic

Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Natalie Walters arrived at her father’s nursing home, the parking lot was nearly empty and, inside, the elevator made no stops. “How alone must he have been.” Even before COVID-19 bared the truth of a profit-driven industry with too few caring for society’s most vulnerable, thin staffing was a hallmark of nursing homes around the country. …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Nursing home staffing falls as patients plead for help

Associated Press

NEW YORK — One in three U.S. nursing homes has fewer nurses and aides than before the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the truth of a profit-driven industry with too few caring for society’s most vulnerable. The American Health Care Association, which lobbies for care facilities, said its polling of members last month found 99% of nursing homes and 96% of assisted …

Homes Facilities Staffing Nursing Covid Montrose Dalton

3 years, 3 months ago

Government pledges to expand elder services

China Daily

The central government has earmarked 27.1 billion yuan to develop senior care facilities and services between 2012 and last year, the Minister of Civil Affairs Li Jiheng said on Friday. However, increased migration – one in every four Chinese were classified as migrants, census data showed – means large number of seniors are "empty-nesters" living away from their adult children. …

China Services Age Care Chinese Old Old Age

3 years, 5 months ago

Proposed rule would require nursing homes to boost staffing

Associated Press

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration on Wednesday said it wants to require nursing homes to boost staffing levels, announcing the first in what officials describe as a series of updates to outdated long-term care regulations that have been in place for more than 20 years. Under the proposed regulation, nursing homes would be required to provide at least …

Regulation Pennsylvania Care Nursing Nursing Homes

3 years, 6 months ago

Watchdog: Nursing home deaths up 32% in 2020 amid pandemic

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in the most comprehensive look yet at the ravages of COVID-19 among its most vulnerable victims. The report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services found that about 4 …

Homes Death Medicare Deaths Patients Nursing Report

3 years, 6 months ago

Isolated by covid, anxiety on the rise among elderly

Live Mint

Loneliness and anxiety among senior citizens, who live by themselves in metro cities that barely pause to breathe, is neither new nor uncommon. It could be because the stresses of work from home increased but overall gap in communication widened during the pandemic.” Mapping parameters such as elder abuse, loss of income, medical issues, emotional challenges and vaccination, the survey …

Family Loss Elderly Age Income Senior Citizens Survey

3 years, 6 months ago

Is it worth selling my house if I’m going into aged care?

ABC

For senior Australians who cannot live independently at home, residential aged care can provide accommodation, personal care and general health care. This can help pay for the rental-style daily cost and ongoing fees of aged care you might have a special sentimental attachment to your family house. So keeping it might be a less confronting option keeping an expensive family …

Test Pay Care House Need Means Deposit

3 years, 7 months ago

Oldest inhabitant in the Netherlands dies at 110-years-old

NL Times

The oldest resident of the Netherlands, Cornelia Boonstra, died Saturday morning at the age of 110 at the nursing home, Vreedenhoff in Arnhem, according to De Gelderlander. She became the oldest living person in the Netherlands after Anne Brasz-Later died on September 2, 2020, at the age of 114. She lived independently until she was 100 years old, after which …

Old Netherlands Cornelia

3 years, 8 months ago

Three aged care workers on what it's really like in the industry

ABC

Registered nurse Jocelyn Hofman starts crying when she describes what it is like to work in aged care. "It upsets me because I have dedicated my life to aged care, but my work is being devalued," she says. We don’t have proper breaks, because we are worried.” Aged care nurse Jocely Hofman says nothing has changed in the sector since …

Work Workers Care Nursing Residents Sector Staff

3 years, 8 months ago

Dutch healthcare system further strained amid Covid crisis

NL Times

The pressure on regular hospital care increased slightly over the past week with 51% of hospitals saying they were not able to perform all of their scheduled procedures, compared to 49% last week. Nine hospitals indicated that they were no longer entirely able to provide critically important care which can be planned in advance within a six-week window, Dutch healthcare …

Care Covid Crisis Strained Amid

3 years, 9 months ago

More retirees trying to avoid going into aged care, exclusive data from Australian Seniors reveals

ABC

For a growing number of Australians, aged care is less desirable than ever before. Exclusive data from Australian Seniors reveals 43 per cent of Australians aged over 50 who were surveyed for the 2021 Mindset Shift Report say the pandemic has changed their view of aged care. "I do know a little about aged care, had a look at a …

Retirement Funding Pay Care Cent System Joy

3 years, 11 months ago

75,000 vaccinated so far as nursing homes begin to inoculate residents

NL Times

So far, 75 thousand residents of the Netherlands have been vaccinated against Covid-19, roughly 0.4 percent of the entire population, public health institute RIVM said on Monday. That includes 40 thousand acute care workers, and 35 thousand healthcare employees at live-in facilities for people with disabilities. Vaccination of the first residents of nursing homes and disability care homes began on …

Health Vaccination Residents Vaccine Pfizer Care Facilities

4 years ago

Deaths among nursing home residents alarmingly high last week of 2020

NL Times

In the last week of 2020, around 1,700 residents of nursing homes and care homes, and other people who make use of the Long-Term Care Act, died. According to the stats office, that is about what was expected for the last week of the year. The number of deaths in the Netherlands has been higher than expected since the last …

4 years ago

Level of staff training is one factor in nursing home Covid death rate: Van Dissel

Dutch News

Dutch chief virologist Jaap van Dissel has come under fire for saying in an interview that the high number of deaths in nursing homes during the first coronavirus wave was partly down to the level of staff training. ‘We have learned that a lot of factors are at play.They include the level of training of the care workers, the situation …

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4 years, 2 months ago

We've investigated aged care for the past three years. These are the stories that shocked us

ABC

It was billed as the "opportunity of a lifetime". And as senior counsel assisting said in the final hearings of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Royal Commission last week, it is "the most in-depth and thorough examination of Australia's aged care systems that has ever been undertaken". The day after our story aired, the regulator, the Aged Care Quality …

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