How to Choose Nursing Home Technique

1. How to Choose Nursing Home Technique

Nursing home should be standardized in its care, facility, building and service. The establishment should be certified by the Ministry of Public Health regulation of Health Care Management for Older or Dependent Persons B.E. 2563 and standardized diseases control of Covid-19 Prevention and Control in Health Care Management for Older or Dependent Persons.

2. Standardized Elderly Care

A quality nursing home should have nurses and caregivers who have been trained and skilled in elderly care stand-by for 24 hours.

3.Standardized Facilities

A quality nursing home should have standardized equipment, for example, call button, wheelchair, walker, cane, overbed, adjustable bed, heater, air conditioning, etc.

4.Rational Price

A quality nursing home should have a rational price in accordance with the quality of facilities and services as well as the surrounding that is suitable for living.

5.Environment and General Livelihood

A quality nursing home should have wide space, hygienic, serene and ventilative, in order for the residents in the nursing home to feel relaxed. In the nursing home, it should be designed in correspondence with the regulated standard. Each area should be well separated, i.e., the bed arrangement is not too compacted in the shared room and the shower room should have a rail from the door to the toilet or the shower area, the floor must not wet and the path must be flat.

6.A nursing home should be located near hospitals and convenient for the relatives to visit

because if there is any emergency, the elderly can be referred to the hospital in a timely manner.

7.Activity and Food Nutrition

Some elders need to undertake basic physical therapy, some need to walk or other, hence, customized activities for each elder are necessary. Another crucial thing is food, the nursing home should have nutritionists because the elderly need to consume suitable food according to their conditions to get healthier.

8.Near to their Home

A good nursing home should be near the family’s house in order for the convenience of visitation.

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