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A INNOVATIVE AND TESTED SOLUTION TO

WANDERING PATIENTS

AND WANDERING RESIDENTS

IN THE NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT

THE RESIDENT ROOM

 PRIVACY GATE

Manufactured & Marketed Only By

SCOTTY'S  ENTERPRISE LLP

630 Mill Gulch Road     Sheridan,  MT 59749

406-842-7899 /406-843-5599 

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RESIDENT’S RIGHT

 TO

PRIVACY

The Care Facility’s Solution to Protecting the Cognitively Intact and Improving the

 QUALITY OF LIFE

 For All Residents

 

ELIMINATES COMPLAINTS BY COGNITIVELY INTACT RESIDENTS REGARDING THE ANNOYANCE OF WANDERING RESIDENTS ENTERING THEIR ROOMS

THE RESIDENT ROOM PRIVACY GATE IS:

Ø    CONVENIENT & SAFE

Ø    STAFF & RESIDENT FRIENDLY

Ø    ECONOMICAL: A ONE TIME INVESTMENT

Ø    UNOBTRUSIVE TO DOORWAY VISION & VENTILATION

Ø    AESTHETICALLY APPEALING

Ø    EASY TO INSTALL & MAINTENANCE FREE

Ø    PROVEN EFFECTIVE SINCE 1995

Ø    A PASSIVE SOLUTION

Ø   COATED IN A FLAME RETARDANT FINISH

WHY DOES YOUR FACILITY NEED THE RESIDENT ROOM PRIVACY GATE?

Ø    PROVIDES RESIDENTS THE PRIVACY TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED: MANDATED BY FEDERAL LAW, OBRA

Ø    REDUCES FACILITY CAREGIVER STRESS

Ø    ELIMINATES THE TIME SPENT RETRIEVING WANDERING RESIDENTS FROM THE COGNITIVELY INTACT RESIDENTS’ ROOM

HOW DOES THE RESIDENT ROOM PRIVACY GATE WORK?

Ø    WANDERING RESIDENTS HAVE DIFFICULTY NEGOTIATING AND PROBLEM SOLVING A BARRIER THAT MUST BE PULLED TOWARD THEM

Ø    DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH NORMAL DOOR OPERATIONS

Ø    EASILY ATTACHES DIRECTLY TO EXISTING DOOR JAMB

Ø    EASILY NEGOTIATED BY WHEELCHAIR BOUND RESIDENTS

YOUR SOLUTION TO MEETING OBRA REQUIREMENTS AND PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR:

Ø    THE WANDERING RESIDENT

Ø    THE COGNITIVELY INTACT RESIDENT

Ø    THE FACILITY’S CAREGIVERS STAFF 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST

 
  The Resident Room Privacy Gate is an effective, safe, permanent, staff friendly, one time cost, passive solution to the complaints facilities receive about the cognitively impaired wandering residents and wandering patients from the cognitively intact residents, their families and facility staff.  Resident Room Privacy Gates have proven nearly 100% effective in facility use all over the United States since 1995.  As stated in testimonials “The Resident Room Privacy Gate reduced time consuming wanderer related administrative duties,”   “saved nursing man-hours,”   "We tried every thing else .... your Gate  performed  better and more effectively than any product on the market."  and more importantly; “protects the privacy of the cognitively intact residents” (as mandated by Federal Law in OBRA).

 A common practice of the cognitively intact resident is to close their door to keep out the cognitively impaired wandering resident.  Closed doors isolate residents in their rooms.  Closed doors are a solid barrier to the outside world and facility activities.  Closed doors isolate residents from the caregivers and in some facilities, limits ventilation flow.  Resident Room Privacy Gates provide an aesthetically appealing physical barrier while providing a sense of complete openness at the doorway, eliminating isolation.  Resident Room Privacy Gates assist facilities in providing a safe environment for cognitively impaired residents by separating them from potentially volatile situations.  Resident Room Privacy Gates are a passive non-negotiable barrier for cognitively impaired wandering residents.  The Resident Room Privacy Gate is not a restraint.

 How do Resident Room Privacy Gates function?  Doors open away from you and into a room, privacy gates open toward you and into the hall.  Resident Room Privacy Gates work based on the fact that wandering residents have great difficulty negotiating and problem solving a barrier that must be pulled toward them.   Resident Room Privacy Gates affix to the outside of the door jamb and do not interfere in any way with the opening and closing of the residents’ room door; therefore, Life Safety Codes are maintained and total privacy can be attained.

 There is no other product available to the nursing care industry that fulfills the needs of your residents, your staff, or your facility as well as the Resident Room Privacy Gate.   The Resident Room Privacy Gate is also wheelchair friendly.  The Resident Room Privacy Gate will successfully protect the privacy of the cognitively intact resident as it has been proven to be so without any complaints from staff or residents since its use began.

 Purchase Resident Room Privacy Gates and witness the complaints concerning the annoyance of wandering residents be eliminated.  You will not find anything on the market that compares to the Resident Room Privacy Gate at any price!   Numerous state and federal surveyors have been very complimentary of the Resident Room Privacy Gate.  Today, eighty percent (80%) of our orders for the Resident Room Privacy Gate are reorders, which is a testament to its successful functionality and durability.

If you have any questions about ordering or require additional information, please call Scotty's Enterprise at (406) 842-7899.  The cost of the Resident Room Privacy Gate is $249.OO in the lower 48 states.  Receive a 10% discount in the lower 48 states on an order of six (6) gates or more.

 
  

 

LITERATURE SEARCH

THE FUNCTIONALITY AND MECHANICS SUPPORTING

THE RESIDENT ROOM PRIVACY GATE

 

Background Information:

“The dementias are the most commonly found psychiatric syndrome in the nursing homes with a prevalence of 67-78%.  Alzheimer’s disease accounts for about 75% of all progressive dementias seen in the elderly, and multi-infarct dementia accounts for 15%.  Together, the two conditions account for about 90% of all dementias.”1

            “Nursing home staffs consider 11% of residents to be wanderers.  (National Center Health Statistics, 1979)  One in five ambulatory cognitively impaired nursing home residents are wanderers. (Algase, 1988)”2

            “The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease doubles every 5 years after age 65. Currently, an estimated 4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, but as the life expectancy increases and the Baby Boomers start reaching age 65 by 2011, those with Alzheimer’s will grow proportionately larger. Planners and providers of long-term care services must seek new ways to optimize medical management, delay cognitive and functional decline, and reduce caregiver burden.”3

 

Wandering:

            “Wanderers experience an average of 79 episodes of locomotion per day and ambulate an average of 14 hours during the day. (Algase and Cheng, 1991)”4

            “Wandering is a common behavioral problem in Alzheimer’s disease.”5

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates prevent entrance into the cognitively intact residents’ room; yet, do not obstruct the doorway view or ventilation.

 

            “Wanderers have poorer parietal lobe functioning (controls general sensory experiences) than subjects with similar degrees of cognitive impairment. (DeLeon and Associates, 1984)”6

            “Wanderers showed significantly greater impairment in basic skills (orientation, memory, and concentration) and in the higher order skills of language, abstract thinking, judgment, and spatial orientation than the non-wandering cognitively impaired resident.  (Algase, 1991)”7

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates work because the cognitively impaired resident cannot pull the gate toward them and then walk around it into the room.  (The cognitively impaired want to simply push against it and if there is no give, they continue walking.)

 

            “Wandering behavior can be both a psychosocial problem (meddling in others’ belongings during wandering) and a physical care problem. (Burnside, 1988)”8

            “More alert residents are annoyed by the intrusions of the wanderers.”9

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates allow cognitively intact residents to maintain their privacy, self-respect and sense of security.

 

            “The abnormal behaviors most often complained about by nursing home personnel include wandering and pacing. (Lucas, Steele and Bognannis, 1986)”10

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates eliminate the wasted man-hours spent by nursing staff retrieving wanders from the cognitively intact resident’s room.

 

            “Open doors are a signal to enter.”11

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates are a signal not to enter.

 

Treatment Approaches:

            “Steps to decrease wandering include reality orientation and redirection.”12

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates orients wanderers to the hallway and redirects them away from other residents’ rooms.

 

            “The abilities of Alzheimer’s residents can be enhanced by visual barriers and nonverbal cues.”13

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates are both a visual barrier and a nonverbal cue to the cognitively impaired not to enter rooms where they do not belong.

 

            “Ongoing orientation on the unit is essential for the resident with spatial orientation and training problems since their ability to remember is also impaired.  When spatial orientation abilities are lost, the provision of activities to engage and purposefully focus the attention of the older person with cognitive impairment can be ability-compensation.”14

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates are ability compensating because they assist in orienting residents where not to wander.

 

            “Wandering agendas can be classified as (1) purposeless, including tactile or environmentally cued searching, or (2) purposeful…Tactile wanderers are residents nearing the end of the ambulatory dementia phase.  Behavioral characteristics include the use of their hands to explore the environment.  Nursing interventions include guiding residents away from doors, supervising their walking, or redirecting them to other tactile objects.”15

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates provide a tactile barrier, which assists nursing staff in guiding residents away from the cognitively intact resident’s doorway.

 

            “Environmentally cued wanderers are usually in the mid to late ambulatory dementia phase.  They appear calm and tend to follow cues within the environment.  A chair may cue them to sit, a window invites them to look out, hallways entice them to keep walking, and a door may indicate an exit.  Nursing interventions include assessing the environment for cues to wander.  Doors may be fitted with special closures that prohibit opening by impaired residents. (Hall, 1988)”16

 

Resident Room Privacy Gates cue wanderers to “move on” away from the cognitively intact resident’s room and continue walking.

 

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.  Szwabo, Peggy A. and Grossberg, George T., Problem Behaviors in Long-Term Care, Recognition, Diagnosis and Treatment (New York, NY, Springer Publishing Co., 1993) p. 35, 37

2.  Tangalos, Eric G., The Environment of Care (The continuum of Dementia: Transforming Long-Term Care for Alzheimer’s Disease Sept. 2003) p. 1&2

3.  Hogstel, Mildred O., Geropsychiatric Nursing (St. Louis, MO, The C.V. Mosby Co., 1990) p. 262

4.  Szwabo, p. 164

5.  Ibid., p. 167

6.  Ibid., p. 167

7.  Ibid., p. 167

8.  Hogstel, p. 204

9.  Ebersole, Priscilla and Hess, Patricia, Toward Healthy Aging-Human Needs and Nursing Response (Baltimore, MD, The C.V. Mosby Co., 1990) p. 326

10.  Hogstel, p. 262

11.  Szwabo, p. 221

12.  Ebersole, p. 326

13.  Dawson, Pam, Wells, Donna L. and Kline, Karen, Enhancing the Abilities of Persons with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias-A Nursing Perspective (New York, NY, Springer Publishing Co., 1993) p. 33

14.  Dawson, p. 33

15.  Hogstel, p. 204

16.  Ibid. , p. 204

 

   
 

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