Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Elderly women choked at San Antonio Nursing Home

  Beth Janicek | October 13, 2009 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Janice Maier, 77, was a sleep in her bed at a senior care facility when she was awaken early Saturday morning when a man entered her room, climbed into her bed and began to choke her and repeatedly...

• Nursing Home Residents Death Caused By Abuse

  Mike Bryant | October 12, 2009 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  A Minnesota Department of Health report found that White Community Hospital and Nursing Home staff in Aurora dropped a resident several feet while being moved in a sling from her bed to a...

• Reverse Mortgage Abuses

  Bruce Bierhans | October 09, 2009 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  What a surprise! An article in todays SanFran Chronicle reports that reverse mortgages have the potential to spawn another subprime-style financial crisis. This, according to a report released by...

• Federal program misses problem nursing homes

  Mike Kelly | October 02, 2009 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC

  WASHINGTON — A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report. The Centers for Medicare and...

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• Florida Has Weak Protection Laws for Our Seniors

  Sandy Grinnell | September 28, 2009 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The Orlando Sentinel has an excellent article today on the pitfalls of the state of Florida's control over who is taking care of the elderly in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult...

• Which Nursing Homes Provide the Best Care: For-Profit or Non-Profit?

  Dan Frith | September 23, 2009 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Choosing a nursing home for a loved one can be a very difficult and emotional decision. We all want to be sure that our family member is being well-cared for and their physical and emotional...

• Can the Cognitively Impaired Consent to Sex?

  Beth Janicek | September 22, 2009 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsMcAllen, TX

  Time and time again we hear stories of the elderly being abused or taken advantage of. An issue that I have blogged on several times in the past is the matter of sex in old age, whether...

• Nursing Home Direct Care Givers are Essential to Good Care

  Billy Cunningham | September 05, 2009 11:44 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  The SCAN Foundation, a California philanthropic organization which was established to advance the development of a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors released a paper which confirmed...

• Son and Wife Charged with Abusing and Stealing from Elderly Mother

  Bret Hanna | September 04, 2009 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Beatrice Barker, 90, died in June and now her son and daughter-in-law have been charged with abusing her and stealing from her. Corin Lynn Barker and his wife, Nadine Barker, were charged Tuesday...