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Nursing Homes Elderly adults end up in nursing homes for a variety of reasons, including rehabilitation after a hospital stay, voluntary admittance in order to have assistance with their daily care, disability, as well as problematic behaviors associated with mental conditions such as dementia. In order to be admitted and…

THE BASICS – FEDERAL LAW        In 1965 federal law enabled the federal government to license nursing homes, under two categories; skilled nursing homes and intermediate care facilities that required less medical care and more personal care.  In 1980 Congress enacted the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act which covered…