Differences in quality of care result partly from nursing home managers’ relative competencies and abilities to address such challenges.
The need to deliver high quality care places heavy demands on nursing home managers, who need to fill residents’ and their families’ growing needs with scarce available resources. In Switzerland, even though the majority of nursing home residents rate their overall quality of care (92.8 %) and life (71.3 %) as good or very good, recently developed Swiss quality indicators showed a wide range of quality between nursing homes. Even where the overall quality is satisfactory, differences in care quality are clearly visible between facilities. įaced with comparable challenges in similar contexts (e.g., concerning legislation or financing models), some nursing homes deal with issues much more successfully than others. Yet, factors such as rising number of residents with complex care needs, high staff turnover rates leading to discontinuity of care, organizational process changes or scarce funding often make it difficult to provide nursing home residents safe, high-quality care. Helping this vulnerable group maintain their health and quality of life while retaining as much autonomy as possible demands high quality care in nursing homes. The number of older adults receiving care in long-term-care facilities such as nursing homes is increasing. Improved standards of living and health care have dramatically increased life expectancy in many countries. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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