Safety In Nursing Home

What should the government do to improve the many lives of nursing home residents? So far, there has been a problem of trying to regulate safety and ensure nursing homes prioritizing care and responsibility on those residents. There has been a lack of staff responsibility for providing treatment, administering medication, and keeping their facilities a clean environment. Overall, this caused a concern of how residents are not cared properly. In addition, their lives at a nursing home has always been a gloomy place and a negative impact on them to spend the rest of their lives at; therefore, there should be more planned out activities and daily exercises to keep the residents going. It will decrease the feeling of bitter taste on how they feel
Residents living in nursing homes must be cared for the most and respected for their privacy and identity. According to Medicare and Medicaid Services, they state their opinion towards the health department “that they should begin checking to make sure that all nursing homes have policies prohibiting staff from taking demeaning photographs of residents” (Huseman and Ornstein). It is important for nursing homes to monitor the safety on privacy because it violates governed laws from having residents in social media. In addition, it also violates the identity of nursing home residents to feel unsafe and humiliated. Eventually, laws and policies were set to make it an obligation for staff and faculties to protect the residents identities. The government took action on this since it was an act of sexual harassment, making it intolerable to take pictures or videos of the residents in nursing home facilities. However, residents feel that there still needs much to be done. Many “aged care advocacy groups say the report reveals the Government isn’t doing enough to protect aged care residents” (Physical Sexual Assaults). How the government isn’t cooperating the situation causing a chain of events on living problems occurring. This can lead up to many problems of how nursing home institutes lack the responsibility from protecting their dear residents. Making the living
Nursing homes provide these routines to give proper care and still keep on improving their lives. Cultural and regulatory changes have intent on making nursing home life an impact on residents while living independently in the community (Port et al.). The main objective for nursing homes is to impact on the residents lives that there’s still a chance of a reason to live. Even though residents, especially today, they are living and taking care of themselves because family members are not able to do so. That is why the government has to provide a living assistance on keeping the residents active or else the chances of death will increase. Results have shown that life expectancy will increase through daily activities. The daily “average time nursing home residents spend with activity staff is only 20 minutes per day” (Herold). Which meets the minimum of time of how long a resident should spend time on doing. Or else there will be a psychological issue that can occur such as depression or paranoia. In this kind of issue, government officials should published this as a law for nursing homes to spend time on residents with activities provided. More and more of these will help out a resident to feel that they are at home. In the matter of fact, the many activities that were conducted have made positive impacts on how residents feel about living in