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Nursing homes provide nursing aides and skilled nurses to patients Nursing homes are places designed for providing constant nursing care to people who need constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living. They are also known as convalescent home, Skilled Nursing Unit (SNU), care home or rest homes. It is a place for people who do not need to be in a hospital but can not be cared for at home. Majority of nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses that are available all through the day. These places can have residents between the age group of adults 18 or elderly and younger adults with physical or mental disabilities. Nursing homes offer skilled nursing care with physical, occupational, and other rehabilitative therapies following an accident or illness. Some nursing homes have special care units for people with serious memory problems such as Alzheimer's disease. Some of the nursing homes are set up like a hospital. Their staffs provide medical care, along with the physical, speech and occupational therapy. Some of them offer nurses' station on each floor or a neighborhood feel. The staffs here are encouraged to develop relationships with residents. Some of them also allow the couples to live together. South Florida geriatric care services. - Professional and qualified geriatric care services from the experts at Advocare.
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