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Preparing for baby boomers
Briefings on Long-Term Care, September 1, 2008
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Take a look at today’s nursing home and think about how you’d want it to look if you were staying there. Would it look the same as it does now?
Preparing for baby boomers means a big physical and environmental change for nursing homes.
“We haven’t done a lot of talking about [preparing for baby boomers]. We’re still busy taking care of our elder patients that we’ve got now, and everyone is talking about that group, but when you think of the baby boomers coming in, they’re different,” says Cathleen A. Bergeron, RN, MSHA, CDONA/LTC, Massachusetts chapter president of the National Association Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care.
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