Demand for nursing homes is growing every year. Feedback on public and private institutions of this type is very different. The authorities are not able to provide all old people with a decent old age. Therefore, private institutions are rapidly advancing into the market. Consider how pensioners live in a nursing home and is it easy to get there.
What is a nursing home
Wikipedia says it is a public or private institution that provides shelter for older people who need medical care and 24-hour public services.
Nursing homes appeared centuries ago. Their appearance and internal structure have changed over the years. In institutions of a modern type, the elderly are freed from the need to do household work: cook food, clean the house. For them, this is done by the maintenance staff. And the guests at home at this time are doing their favorite things. As a rule, these are games, walks, watching TV, emotional conversations. Along with household inspection of the elderly, their rehabilitation is also carried out. In nursing homes organized physiotherapy, drug treatment.
According to the form of ownership, institutions of this type are divided into public and private. Recently, non-state nursing homes have been in great demand. Reviews of their work have more positive ratings than public ones. But the prices for their services are high.
Nursing homes are common in countries with nuclear families, in which adults and children live separately.
Abandoned parents or worthy old age
Stories of abandoned children replace stories of abandoned parents. The modern world is merciless. The struggle for housing and comfortable living conditions force people to commit cruel acts: get rid of elderly relatives by sending them to boarding schools. State nursing home services are free. Therefore, old people get in there, interfering with the youth living. So, in the Minsk Boarding House for pensioners and disabled people (Belarus) there are about 380 guests, most of whom own children survived from the apartments.
But there are cases when children place their parents in boarding schools, because physically they cannot take care of them. For example, a person lives to the peak moment, when he needs round-the-clock service and supervision. And the children are busy (work, family) and can not care for an elderly relative. Therefore, for a time they bring them to a nursing home, and when they are released, they take them home.
But in most cases, guests of state nursing homes are deserted and abandoned people. There are many such cases and tragic stories in state nursing homes.
Private boarding houses
The population of the Russian Federation is gradually aging. Every year, the number of residents of nursing homes is increasing in the country. Now in Russia there are about 1.5 thousand of such institutions. But private special nursing homes for the elderly occupy only 10% of their total. The remaining 90% belong to state-type institutions.
In Moscow and Moscow Region
A private nursing home in the Moscow region is easy to find. In Moscow and Moscow region there are about 90 pensions. If this institution for 5 years proves the high quality of the services provided, then it is included in the register of social services providers. This makes it possible for elderly people with a referral from the local social protection authority to take out in a private institution. In this case, the authorities pay about 80% of the state funds for the maintenance of the sent pensioner.
How much is a private nursing home
Private nursing home services are expensive. The day of a pensioner's stay in the institution costs from 1000 to 4000 rubles per day. But the quality of service in them is appropriate.
Typically, about 50 residents live in private boarding houses. All pensioners are located in comfortable rooms in which carers are watching them. The service in private boarding schools for the elderly is at a high level. Pensioners are provided with everything necessary, because they pay money for their service.
Who gets into private boarding houses
As a rule, busy adult children send their elderly relatives to private nursing homes. Reviews about such institutions are better than state ones, therefore people are not afraid to use their services.
According to reviews, you can judge the feelings of guests from staying in a private boarding house. Older people write that they live very well there. They don’t miss the house, because relatives periodically come to visit them. On memorable dates, relatives come to the elderly and arrange a real holiday for them. Pensioners say that they are well within the walls of the house, and children do not need to spend their time searching the elderly parents.
Pensioners in some reviews write that they came to a private nursing home on their own. Realizing that they had become a burden for children, they decided not to interfere with relatives and not to disrupt their health. They came to a private nursing home and did not regret it. Many note the sensitive attitude of the staff and comfortable living conditions. Mostly children finance their stay in a boarding house.
How to get into a nursing home
The conditions for admission to private and public boarding houses are different.
How to get a person into a nursing home state type?
For this, the pensioner needs to prove that he does not have close relatives who would be able to care for him. Or provide documents confirming the disability of his children. In this case, its maintenance will be paid at the expense of the state. However, a pensioner should be prepared for the fact that his pension will decrease in amount.
If an elderly person has able-bodied children, then, by law, they are required to care for and support him. But if the client himself wants to be in a boarding house, then he will have to pay monthly for his stay there. Pension in this case is not reduced.
Documents for a retirement home that a senior citizen must have:
- a statement written in a social security interview;
- medical examination document;
- certificate of housing from the house;
Only after passing through 3 stages, social workers send a pensioner to a nursing home.
Everything looks simpler if an elderly person wants to get into a private nursing home. Financing there is at the expense of the clients themselves or their relatives. Therefore, it is enough for a pensioner to conclude an appropriate contract, undergo a medical examination and subsequently regularly pay money for his maintenance in the house.
Food conditions
Both in private and in public boarding houses for pensioners, the norm of nutrition should be established. In a nursing home of a private type, the diet is more diverse, tailored to the individual characteristics of each guest. This is confirmed by numerous reviews of the wards.
In state-type institutions, everything is much simpler. But in any nursing home, when compiling a ration, the following are taken into account: the health status of the guests, their age category. The menu should be balanced, full. For better absorption, food should be fractional, have high nutritional properties. Compliance with dietary requirements.
Nursing homes in Moscow and Moscow Region
List of the most popular budgetary institutions.
- Pension 31 for labor veterans. The rooms are designed for a maximum of 6 people.
- Gerontopsychiatric center of mercy: rooms - up to 6 guests.
- Pension called "Kindness House": only double rooms.
A private nursing home in the Moscow region resembles a cottage or a country hotel. Such boarding houses are located near forests, which very well affects the health of guests. In the suburbs, the most common and popular boarding houses are the following.
- "Tree of Life": has representative offices in 6 Moscow regions. For a day of living there you need to pay about 1100 rubles.
- Silver Dawn: located 20 km from MKAD. The cost of staying for one day is 1200 rubles or more.
- "Care". This private institution includes 12 centers for elderly people. The price of a boarding house starts at 980 rubles per day.
American and Russian nursing homes
Compare Russian and American nursing homes. Reviews of overseas boarding houses are not always positive.
In America, these homes are called social housing. Most of them are built on the principle of high-rise buildings. Inside the house is divided into apartments and public space. The apartment has a bedroom, living room, bathroom. Meals are served in the shared restaurant. For American pensioners in boarding houses, all conditions for a boring old age are created. The houses are equipped with gyms, pools, playgrounds for ball games. For guests constantly organize creative circles. And American retirees can also garden - plant a small garden on the territory. For a Russian person, such nursing homes resemble a hotel. In Russia, such conditions for pensioners are created only in private institutions.
But American nursing homes are not free. A guest has to pay about 1000 USD per month. However, the city authorities are helping pensioners. By law, the elderly can only pay a third of their salary for social housing. The rest is compensated by the state.
What to look for when choosing a boarding school
If a situation arises in life that forces you to send an elderly relative to a nursing home, you need to prepare for it in advance.
First, psychologists advise not to torment oneself with remorse, but to calmly accept forced circumstances. A pensioner can be left in a boarding house for a while, and then taken home. After all, parents also send their children to kindergarten for the duration of their work, and in the evening they come to pick them up. You can do the same with an elderly relative.
Secondly, you need to find out how his guests live in a nursing home. To do this, drive up to the selected house, talk with its residents and see the conditions in which they are.
5 signs that retirees are well in a nursing home.
- They behave calmly, at ease.
- They live a full life: watch TV, conduct discussions.
- The institution has carefully thought out the daily regimen.
- There are always specialists in the house who are ready to provide the necessary support to the elderly.
- Good reviews of the guests themselves about the nursing home.