Long-Term Care

SNFs contemplate cutting Alzheimer's care units

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, November 8, 2006

With the growing number of assaults on Iowa nursing home staff by residents with Alzheimer's disease, some facilities are contemplating eliminating services for residents with this mentally debilitating disease, reported The Des Moines Register. Not all of the 68,000 Iowans with Alzheimer's disease are aggressive, but nursing home residents with the disease can potentially put other seniors' safety at risk. Facilities are concerned with the cost of maintaining dementia-specific units because facilities aren't reimbursed for the one-on-one care these residents need, along with the physical and emotional risk to employees and other residents, reported The Register.

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