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rcjordan

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Re: Life choices and health
« Reply #30 on: November 02, 2017, 08:46:58 PM »
Overview of 'Advanced Directives'

http://www.capefearvalley.com/patients/advance_directives.html

North Carolina Advance Health Care Directive Registry

https://www.sosnc.gov/ahcdr/
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Re: Life choices and health
« Reply #31 on: November 02, 2017, 08:55:04 PM »
Book: "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End," by Atul Gawande

Well worth reading.  Geriatric medicine,  nursing homes, it's fascinating what we do wrong but also about the innovative ways we are discovering how to do it right.
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« Reply #32 on: November 02, 2017, 08:58:04 PM »
>Book

Does it mention that nursing homes literally bid on prospective patients that are to be discharged from hospitals?
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Re: Life choices and health
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Re: Life choices and health
« Reply #34 on: January 30, 2018, 05:44:25 AM »
I'm still dealing with this one too... My dad is stable, and back to the habits that got him into the mess he's in. 
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« Reply #35 on: January 30, 2018, 04:04:11 PM »
>Does it mention that nursing homes literally bid on prospective patients that are to be discharged from hospitals?

NO KIDDING?!?  Wow. 
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« Reply #36 on: January 30, 2018, 08:53:58 PM »
>>Does it mention that nursing homes literally bid on prospective patients that are to be discharged from hospitals?

>NO KIDDING?!?  Wow.

Yeah, the 21-day Medicare rehab is the money-maker, but the nursing home also figures that a certain percentage will become permanent residents.  This is one way they balance the 'mix' of their residents as to the type & degree of care they will require.
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