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12 A THURSDAY. JULY 1J. 19S2 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORECON The Medical Roundup ftf. litnarlliu Co nuJUnt In Median Mayo Clinic Professor of Medic In Mayo clinic Uleiltur and Trlhuna SyndtcaU. 1962) Emarltui On Chooiing a Nuriing Horn As I said in a recent col umn, often the children of parents who have gone into ipm '.'Hinvaj their seco n d f i' '"" childhood and . ; a neme arc un A" "M ficult to hart f9$"r. die don't $T v '&M know which "k t-t jf way to turn. it tney nave s u f f i c 1 ent money, they probably will AJvare. millK I1I31 Ul putting their parent into some sort of a "nursing home" or "c o n v a 1 e s cent home" or "chronic disease hospital." The important point that people should know, as my friend, Dr. Lewis lerman oi Chicago, was just telling me, Is that there are different types of these hospitals or homes, all with different fa cilities, and different degrees of ability to give good serv ice. In the best type of "chronic hospital," as Dr. Terman says, there will be a good building with good equip ment. There will be a full time physician in charge - a man who specializes in the care of old people. There will be at least one registered nurse on every shift, and the ratio of nurses to patients will be high. There should be a full - time physiotherapist, and if the place is large enough, there should be a full-time laboratory tech nician, and x-ray .facilities. - The food should be good. The reputation of the place should be high; and prefer- rot rou . . . torn runt . . . tou cutsis GROCETERIA SUPER FOOD MARKET oth & Grapt Srraat, M.dtord ably, the place should have been running long enough so as to become well organized. If possible, the children of the patient should try to find out something of the reputation of the place. Sometimes, the family doctor, if they have one, will know or can find out. Much Dtpandi on Kindnast Much will depend upon the kindness with which patients are treated. Often, the chil dren will have to consider the cost of the care. Naturally, the better the care, the higher the cost is likely to be - but not necessarily. Obviously, much depends on how ill and incapacitated the old patient is. If he has diabetes, a bad heart, bad arteries and a dis turbed brain, he will require a maximum of medical and nursing care, and then he should be in the best type of medical home. If, however, about all he needs is custodial care, to keep him from rambling around and getting run over by a car, he can get by In another type of home. In many cases, if the chil dren go through the institu tion, they will sense not only the attitude of the head doc tor and the nurses and at tendants, but they will see if the place is clean and well kept up. They will see if there are any recreational fa cilities, and they will see if any effort is made to rehabili tate patients: to get them out of bed and perhaps out in a garden. It is not pleasant to think of putting a parent in a place In which the only thought will be to house and feed him until he dies. It is well if the building is fire proof and air-conditioned. I like Dr. Terman's thought that a beautiful building, alone, cannot bring a patient a needed glass of water. Only kind attendants will do this. Many of the patients In nurs ing homes have had heart attacks or strokes, or both, and they have diabetes, high blood pressure, severe Parkin son's syndrome, chronic heart disease, perhaps an unfortu nate result of a prostatic oper ation, or perhaps the poor re sults of a fractured hip oper ation. Many of the old people have had a scries of little strokes which have left them confused and forgetful and incompetent to take care of themselves. One difficulty is sometimes that, since the patient has not been legally committed, he or she can get up and insist on leaving the home. Often, in such cases, the children have to come and do their best to talk the parent into staying where he or she Is. The big thing for the chil dren to do, as Dr. Terman says, is to insist on finding out whether the institution under consideration is proper ly equipped to take good care of their parent's particular illness. Obviously, a person who needs much care because of perhaps a bad diabetes, should not be left in a place where there is no resident physician. Also, he should not be in a place in which the manager has never had the sort of training that he would need in order to do a good Job. Antialcoholic Campaign Is Launched In Hungary What causes arthritis and is there a cure? Dr. Alvarez answers your questions in his booklet, "Arthritis and Rheu matism." To obtain it, send 25 cents and a stamped, self addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, The Regis ter and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Des Monies 4, Iowa. JFK ASKS PROBE Washington -IUPII- President Kennedy has asked Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy for a re port on the jailing of Martin Luther King Jr. and another minister at Albany, Ga., the White House said Wednesday. By GARY HAMPTON United Press International Budapest UPD Communist Hungary has launched some thing like a state-directed "Alcoholics Anonymous" in a national drive against exces sive drinking. Hungarians are not hard drinking people and there are few drunks to be seen in streets and bars. Authorities apparently are concerned at a rise in the number of crimes committed by people who have been drinking and of in dustrial and traffic accidents caused by intoxication. The government campaign ranges from warning all school children against the dangers of drink to trying to rehabilitate chronic drinkers in alcoholic clinics where they can receive free medical treatment, advice and com panionship. Other measures Include closing down many thousands of low- class "drink-shops" and purging press, radio and television of material which might encourage Hungarians to drink. Instead, these media now will promote natural fruit drinks put on sale espe cially for the campaign. Leg islation will be passed to pro tect the families of alcoholics and stiffer penalties for crimes and accidents involv ing drink already have been introduced. Few figures are available on the p r o b 1 e m . The Com munist party newspaper "Nepszabadsag," however, re cently noted that consump tion of rum and other spirits was "significantly higher" last year than in 1960, adding that 20 per cent of all crimes in 1960 were committed by people under the influence of alcohol. 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