Nursing home for the elderly in rural areas Experience in Community Nursing.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Nursing home for the elderly in rural areas Experience in Community Nursing [Abstract] Objective To summarize the rural nursing home for the elderly in the community care experience and understanding. Methods in 10 nursing homes in community care, and self-made form to 258 elderly people for investigation and implementation of community care before and after the elderly health and health care costs were compared. The results greatly improved the health of the elderly, medical expenses also decreased by 25.8% over the previous year. Conclusion of the implementation of community care in rural nursing homes for the elderly, can reduce the incidence of chronic diseases, improve or enhance their quality of life, and can effectively save the country health resources. made to further improve and enhance the rural community elderly care homes for the elderly and measures. [Keywords:] Experience on community care for the elderly nursing home According to national health reform policy, in June 2006 in our hospital was designated as the pilot units Jikun Hospital, aims to tackle poverty to some extent, people “medical treatment is difficult and expensive” problem. Jikun hospital set up, we lived close Many come from rural nursing home’s living alone. in clinical treatment and care of these elderly people, we understand the conditions of health care in rural nursing home less than satisfactory, low level of professional care staff, the services for the elderly is basically eat, live, it is difficult according to the physical condition of the elderly for health care, lack of health care and rehabilitation, and other professional care, not in time to prevent some diseases, the elderly when sick, injured or ill can not be cured, it is easy to paralysis and even death [1]. WHO proposed to achieve healthy aging, improve the quality of life of older persons and effectively save the national health resources, from October 2007 -2008 I