Nursing Home facts
While investigating facts about Nursing Homes Near Me and Nursing Home Jobs, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 2014, an 89 year old WW2 veteran, Bernard Shaw went missing from his nursing home. It turned out that he went to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings against the nursing home's orders. He left the home wearing a grey mack concealing the war medals on his jacket.
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A 98-Year Old Mother Moved Into Same Nursing Home as Her 80-Year Old Son to Take Care of Him
What nursing homes accept medicaid?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what nursing homes are hiring. Here are 50 of the best facts about Nursing Home Jobs Near Me and Nursing Homes Hiring Near Me I managed to collect.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet pledged their financial support the last living Titanic survivor, Millvinia Dean, after it was reported that she’d been forced to sell her mementos from the wreck to pay for nursing home bills.
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In 2006, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia launched a $1.2 million program to retrain prostitutes as nursing-home caregivers. A supporter explained they had “good people skills, aren't easily disgusted, and have zero fear of physical contact.”
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Retired From the Supreme Court to Take Care of Her Husband With Alzheimer's. Shortly After Forgetting His Family, He Fell in Love With Another Woman at the Nursing Home. Instead of Sad, O'Connor was "thrilled," He Was No Longer Spending His Days in Depression.
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Nancy Cowen was forced to leave behind her cat Cleo, whom she had adopted as a stray, when she moved into a nursing home. About two weeks later however, Cleo managed to find the nursing home where she is now reunited with her owner as care staff intend on keeping them together.
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The *Ecce Homo* painting which was turned into the "Potato Jesus" meme after a failed restoration has increased tourism in that area, and the funds go towards the church owned nursing home and the "art restorer's" son who suffers from cerebral palsy.
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In Portland, Oregon (2006) a 58 year old husband hired a Hit man to murder his wife. When his wife returned home she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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A local fisherman in Costa Rica nursed a crocodile back to health after it had being shot in the head, and released the reptile back to its home. The next day, the man discovered "Pocho" had followed him home and was sleeping on the mans porch. For 20 years Pocho became part of the mans family
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A nursing home in Sweden changed their employees' workdays from 8 to 6 hours per day and found it increased productivity and reduced staff turnover
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Many nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to collect residents with dementia who try to leave.
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The Dutch built a nursing home for Alzheimers patients that pretends as a village, complete with shops, restaurants, movie theaters, all staffed by personnel trained to care for dementia patients.
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A Dutch nursing home for people with dementia puts actual-size stickers of their former front doors on the doors to their rooms. This helps the patients find their rooms and gives the place a familiar feel.
A Dutch nursing home which provides free housing to college students in return for being good neighbors, interacting with older residents, attending parties, etc to ward off loneliness and depression common in the elderly. - source
It is cheaper for seniors to live on a cruise ship than in a nursing home. The average nursing home is $200 a day, while Princess Cruises charge $135 a day, plus offers better food, daily fresh sheets, swimming pools, shows and entertainment, and the ability to travel anywhere in the world. - source
Oscar the Cat who predicted when people in his nursing home were about to die with such accuracy that staff would call relatives.
A cat has "predicted" the deaths of 25 residents in a nursing home in the US. The cat displayed sudden affection for dying residents - source
When nursing home care?
There's a nursing home in Seattle that brings in kids to play with the elderly. It improves the daily lives of the residents and makes the kids less likely to be ageist later in life
How much does a nursing home cost?
A nursing home shut down and staff went home even though there was more than a dozen patients STILL THERE. Cook and Janitor stayed and cared for them for two days!!
The 'dementia village' in the Netherlands is a nursing home disguised to look like the outside world
In the Netherlands, Dutch students can live in nursing homes rent-free (as long as they keep the residents company for 30 hours per month)
There is a Seattle preschool located in a nursing home. It is called the Intergenerational Learning Center.
