Bursack, Carol B. "Get Over Feelings That Prevent You From Visiting the Nursing Home." Agingcare.com. AgingCare, LLC. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. <http://www.agingcare.com/Articles/visiting-elderly-nursing-homes-guilt-stress-emotions-139127.htm>. This article provides an insight of what to expect when you visit a nursing home. It also separates facts from myths, and assures you that nursing homes are not scary. It also lists reasons why you should visit the elderly in nursing homes. This article is useful because it gave me an idea of what nursing homes really are like before I actually volunteered at one. I would use this in my research paper when I talk about the reasons why people should visit old people at nursing homes.
Daily Mail Reporter. "Revealed: Sad Plight of the Thousands of Elderly Left Alone in Homes 'without Letters, Visits or Calls' in Their Final Years." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd, 11 Nov. 2010. Web. 02 Feb. 2012. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328425/Thousands-elderly-left-homes-letters-visits-calls-final-years.html>. This article focused on all the elderly in nursing homes who felt isolated and felt as if they are not wanted on Earth. It also provided a study done by a government funded research program. This article also shows how the elderly in nursing homes are living extremely sad lives. This article also provides many facts and numbers, which I can use in my paper to prove how many people are not receiving any calls or letters.
Katz, Sidney, comp. Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. Washington, D.C.: National Academy, 1986. Print. This book talks about quality of care and quality of life in nursing homes. It mentions different types of techniques needed for staff members to know to take care of the patients. This book also touches upon how patients will feel toward certain situations. I could use this in my paper to prove how the patients will feel in certain conditions, for example how they would feel if visitors came to visit them and if they involved religious services in nursing homes.
Krause, Daniel Robert. Home Bittersweet Home: Old Age Institutions in America. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1982. Print. This book mainly focused on the effects of old age institutions on the elderly. It also included many interviews with patients in nursing homes. The book also did a great job describing how nursing homes affect people. I will definitely be able to use this in my paper to provide evidence that people in nursing homes indeed feel isolated at times.
McManamy, John. "Depression in the Elderly." McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web. Copyright 2010 John McManamy, 15 Dec. 2003. Web. 04 Feb. 2012. <http://www.mcmanweb.com/elderly_depression.html>. This article mainly focuses on depression in the elderly. As a journalist and author, McManamy informs us that although older people have much more to be depresses about, depression is not part of normal aging. He also listed guidelines for elderly people with depression. I could use this in my paper to show that depression in the elderly is not normal, although more likely, and that we should take more action. It also provided a couple studies and facts, which will also be useful in the paper.
Severtson, James. Personal interview. 12 Mar. 2012. During this interview, James Severtson, an older aged high school reprographics teacher, informed me about his mother, a patient in a nursing home. He informed me that his mother was probably one of the most active patients in the nursing home. However, he did agree that many were not like her and many were too tired to even participate in activities. Although he is able to e-mail his mother, not many other patients are able to even use the computer, making it harder for them to communicate with their loved ones, causing more isolation. I would use this interview in my paper to prove that although some can easily communicate, others are not able to.
Span, Paula. "The Nursing Home Exodus, Part 2." The New Old Age Blog. The New York Times Company, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 09 Apr. 2012. <http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/the-nursing-home-exodus-pt-2/?ref=nursinghomes>. This article is mainly about an elderly person who hates nursing homes and would rather live at his home. This patient does not like how he is not permitted to do anything his way at the nursing home he is staying at. He, like many other patients, would rather spend his last days at home where he is happy. I could use this in my paper to prove that although there are many patients who live in nursing homes, they still do not consider it their home and would much rather live at their real home than a nursing home.
Zezima, Katie. "Experiencing Life, Briefly, Inside a Nursing Home." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 23 Aug. 2009. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/health/24nursing.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all>. This article was about a student pretending to be a patient in a nursing home to experience how life was for an actual patient. Although the student does say that there are many activities in nursing homes, she also says that the majority of the people do not get involved in them. She later on finds out that the patients are too tired for these activities and would much rather do something that does not involve much movement. This would be very useful in my paper because it basically gives a reason to why the elderly patients in nursing homes do not participate in the many activities provided by the nursing homes, which will get to my point that we need different activities to help keep them happy.
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