Adding personal touches to residents rooms to reduce depression
Many long term care facilities are are attempting to make residents rooms more of a “homely” environment. Often times a resident will demand a greater need for long term care services and have to move around to different rooms. This tends to give a lot of residents an unstable feeling, lack of independance, anxiety, or even depression.
Recent studies have shown that up to 45% of residents living in a nursing home suffer from some type of depression. With age naturally comes a sense of loneliness, grief, or needing help with daily[…]