rest-home

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rest-home

an old people's home

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A FORMER Christchurch City councillor Ali Jones has launched a petition so rest-home residents can't be turfed out of their homes.

Petition launched to protect rest-home residents

At the time of enrolment, there were an estimated 650 facilities with rest-home beds and 340 facilities with hospital beds in New Zealand.

Quality and staffing: is there a relationship in residential aged care?

Along with other researchers (Begue & Bastounis, 2003) we have hypothesized that positive coping strategies may mitigate or dilute any stressful and unpleasant effects of rest-home living conditions and thus facilitate a better quality of life.

Well-being and belief in a just world among rest home residents

REGULARS from a Coventry pub have raised pounds 500 to send old folk from a city rest-home to the seaside.

Pub fun benefits old and young

One gets the impression that the institute hasn't been an "intellectual hotel" so much as a rest-home for geniuses.

Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study

Morresey, who was endorsed as an NP with prescribing rights in November, cares for rest-home residents who are patients of Three Rivers Medical, Puhi Kaiti Community Health Centre and the Doctors Te Whare Hapara.

New NP improves care for Gisborne elderly

Managing a 13-bed rural rest-home, governed by a committee of dedicated locals, is the polar opposite of working for a profit-driven aged-care chain.

Managing a rural rest home: managing a community-owned rest-home throws up some challenges--and rewards

It has 23 beds--six acute beds, including isolation and palliative care beds, one maternity birthing/postnatal room, 14 aged residential care (ARC) beds, both rest-home and hospital level, one resuscitation and one observation bed.

New facility opens in Kaikoura

In its decision, the tribunal said the circumstances highlighted the dilemma when an EN also had responsibilities for managing a facility, and an employee of the rest-home was an RN.

Inadequate care of elderly patient with dementia

THE GOVERNMENT'S announcement last month of a five per cent increase in the rest-home bed subsidy falls a long way short of solving the pay rate crisis in the sector, according to NZNO's aged-care industrial adviser David Wait and the chief executive of the Aged Care Association (ACA), Martin Taylor.

Aged-care funding boost not enough for pay parity

There are a couple of statements in the letter that, to the best of my knowledge, are incorrect --firstly, that the NETP programme costs for rest-home staff members to participate; secondly, that not participating in a NETP programme means graduates cannot work in a DHB for two years.

Where are the jobs? Asks disheartened new graduate

The Consumer review found limited improvements made in the sector since a damning report in 2009 by Auditor-General Lyn Provost, which was critical of rest-home monitoring.