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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Conway Manor
For my field experience, I went to Conway Manor. It's a nursing home on the outskirts of Conway, S.C. Once I got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were patients waiting around at the entrance of the door hoping that their family or friends would be walking through the door to visit them. Seeing that made me feel a since of sadness so I got right to work. At first, I led the elderly that were waiting by the door back to their rooms and talk to them. They told me that their family/friends barely come to visit them so I asked them what health problems they had; it ranged from dementia to high blood pressure and i've even seen a vegetable. The different things I did there was help the patients, take their food to them, file paperwork, tell visitors where their family or friends were staying, and things like that. I learned that everyone deserves a chance to have good health right along with a good laugh.
Problems in the Nursing Homes
In most nursing homes, the elderly are experiencing loneliness and depression due to the cause of people not visiting them and showing them the love and attention they deserve. I feel that the real problem of nursing homes is that the elderly do not have the same love they once received before they arrived to that particular nursing home, which can possibly lead to poor health. According to statistics, patients in a nursing home who doesn't have family/friends to come visit them have a lower health rate then the patients who have family/friends visitaion. (LegacyProject, 1) I believe that this isn't a very healthy way for an elderly person to spend their potential last days on earth; lonely and with poor health. If at least one person would visit an elderly patient in a nursing home, then the rate of health would increase.
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