文档介绍：GUIDELINES AND MENDATIONS FOR QUALITY CARE NURSINGHOME CARE Of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis Editors: Dorothy E. Northrop, MSW, ACSW Debra Frankel, MS, OTR ǚ 4 NURSING HOME CARE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CONTRIBUTORS National MS Society Nursing Home Task Force Diane Afes, MA Robert Buchanan, PhD Nancy Cassady, MHA Carole Downing, MSW, LCSW Debra Frankel, MS, OTR Lynda Hartman, RN, MS Nancy Holland, RN, EdD Ruta Kadonof , MHS Sei Knobel, MD Carolyn Konnert, LSW Robert Mendoza, PhD Dorothy Northrop, MSW Maureen Reeder Marva Serotkin, MPH Elizabeth Shuster, MD Suzanne Smeltzer, EdD, RN, FAAN Anne-Elizabeth Straub, CSW, CFT Cindy Walsh, RN, BSN, C Disclaimer The National MS Society is proud to be a source of information about MS. Our comments are based on professional advice, published experience and expert opinion, but do not represent individual therapeutic mendation or prescription. 5 GUIDELINES AND MENDATIONS FOR QUALITY CARE PREFACE This document was developed by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to provide guidance to clinicians and administrators of nursing home communities who are seeking to develop more ef ective care plans to 1) manage the unique set of clinical conditions that residents with MS present, and 2) maximize the quality of life for these residents. Multiple sclerosis is plex, chronic disorder of the central nervous system that can generate the need for a range of long-term care services including in-home care, adult day programs, assisted living, and nursing home care. While only about 5–10% of the MS population requires chronic nursing home care, people with MS who e nursing home residents need targeted, specialized care that many nursing homes do not have experience providing. When traditional geriatric care is not modii ed for this population, the experience es more dii cult than it needs to be for both staf and residents. pared to the frail elderly nursing home resident, the resident with MS te