Turning Nursing Homes into True Homes: The Household Model

Better Care Playbook December 29, 2023
Harris Meyer

Skilled nursing facilities have been designed and operated in a hospital-like, institutional style since they proliferated in the 1960s across the United States. But these facilities have been afflicted by quality of care, safety, and infection-control problems for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted those problems, with a disproportionate share of people in the U.S. who died from the virus contracting it while living in a nursing home, often in shared rooms. Despite an aging population and a growing need for long-term care, nursing home occupancy rates have fallen since the pandemic emergency period, with surveys showing that many people have negative perceptions about nursing homes.

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