Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nursing Homes Still Profitable during the Recession

  Beth Janicek | November 18, 2009 3:13 PM | 1 CommentMcAllen, TX

  To many people our recent recession is old news. By now, everyone is used to the downturn in the economy, the rising unemployment rate, foreclosures, and the stock market falling. Despite the weekly...

• Officials Find "Total Collapse" of Care at Local Assisted Living Facility

  Sandy Grinnell | November 17, 2009 5:21 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  According to the Orlando Sentinel, after seven complaints, officials from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration inspected an Emeritus Properties' assisted living facility called...

• New Website to Help Families Learn About Nursing Homes

  Billy Cunningham | November 14, 2009 8:40 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  The National Citizens for Nursing Home Reform (http://www.nccnhr.org/ ), a consumer advocacy group for nursing home residents and caregivers in nursing, homes, announced that the Brown University...

• Nursing Homes & Felons: A Dangerous Mix

  Kristina Labanauskas | November 09, 2009 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Mentally ill criminals and others on society's fringes housed in nursing homes pose a threat to other residents, especially if they are not carefully assessed, treated and monitored. In...

• Contact You Congressman to Pass the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act

  Billy Cunningham | October 31, 2009 10:53 AM | 2 CommentsMobile, AL

  Last January I wrote a blog on the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act (then Senate Bill . 2838 and now Senate Bill 512) The last report from Congress is that the bill was referred to...

• Elder Abuse on the Rise Due to the Recession

  Beth Janicek | October 28, 2009 11:21 AM | 1 CommentLaredo, TX

  Social workers have begun to “flag” some households with the police in the fear that vulnerable elderly people are being abused in their own homes. Age Concern spokeswomen, Sue Herrod...

• The Consumer's Role in the Nursing Home/Healthcare Reform Battle

  Billy Cunningham | October 24, 2009 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Health care reform is the big issue today- as it should be. But how will it affect our elderly in nursing homes? Nursing home owners say they are looking at $16 billion dollars in cuts from Medicare...

• Bruises Can Be a Sign of Elder Abuse

  Beth Janicek | October 21, 2009 4:45 PM | 0 CommentsBrownsville , TX

  A new study released this year by the National Institute of Justice regarding bruising can be useful to identify signs of abuse. As people get older they are prone to more falls, so it may be...

• Gov. Crist Calls for Investigation into Caregiver Screening

  Sandy Grinnell | October 21, 2009 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Kudos to the Sun Sentinel for bringing inadequate employment screening for daycare and senior care workers to light. Their in depth article has apparently caught the attention of Govenor Crist who...

• 97-Year-Old Man Dies After Nursing Home Allegedly Ignored Sore on Penis

  David Mittleman | October 21, 2009 10:07 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI

  The son of 97-year-old Charles Bradley is suing the Everett Care & Rehabilitation nursing home facility in Everett, Washington after his father’s genitals allegedly disintegrated from...