Move over, ladies--More men enter SNFs
Case Management Weekly, July 20, 2005
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Replace this text with your contentThough men only account for 28% of the nursing home population nationally, their numbers are growing, according to New York Newsday. Recent data from New York shows its male senior home population was up to 30.1% in 2003, compared to 25.6% in 1993.
Many skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents are from a generation in which men focused little on outside work or sports, and tend to isolate themselves when they enter a nursing home, experts say. One facility, the Daughters of Sarah in Albany, NY, holds its own men's group with sports talk, political discourse, and junk food. It shows male-oriented movies such as westerns, and may offer beer at upcoming men's group meetings, Newsday reported.
Source: SNF Info Connection, HCPro, Inc.
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