Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Bay City Man - Marvin Schur- Freezes to Death

  Timothy Smith | January 27, 2009 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  This was the headline the greeted me this morning in the Traverse City Record Eagle. I assumed from the title that it was going to be a tragic story of an Alzheimer's patient who wandered off or...

• 94% Of Nursing Homes Accused of Violations

  Greg Webb | October 14, 2008 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Last year, more than ninety percent of nursing homes in the United States were cited for violations of federal safety and health standards; seventeen percent of these caused actual harm or immediate...

• Nursing Home Lawsuit Filed After Rape Charge

  Emily Hawk | January 04, 2008 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL

  The family of an Alzheimer's patient who was raped by a nursing home worker filed a lawsuit against the facility Monday. The suit alleges nursing home abuse by the worker and holds the home responsible for not providing job training.The Alzheimer's patient was a resident of the facility for three years and has since been removed. Her family now says she may not be alone. Since she suffers from...

• Nursing Homes Over-Medicate Dementia and Alzheimer's Patients

  Dan Frith | December 05, 2007 6:49 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Does your mother, father, or other family member in a nursing home take Seroquel, Risperdal, Haldol, or other antipsychotics? If so, it is probably because they have a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Why do nursing home patients receive antipsychotics if they do not have a diagnosis of a psychiatric condition? Great question...and the answer is MONEY!Medicaid has spent more...

• Reported Physical Abuse in Nursing Homes Declines

  Ken Margolin | August 22, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  There was some good news in a 2005 study from the National [Nursing Home] Ombudsman Reporting System ("NORS"). Complaints involving physical abuse in nursing homes decreased from 5,426 in 1998 to 4,137 in 2005. According to the report, complaints of nursing home physical abuse ranked 19th out of 128 categories of complaints relating to nursing home conditions.While any decline in numbers of...

• Amendment/Retraction to Article Re Life Care Centers of America

  Matt Christian | August 14, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In an earlier blog dated July 31, 2007, and titled "Nursing Home Charged Criminally for Abuse" the statement was made that Life Care Centers of America pled "guilty" to criminal charges. This was an inadvertant typographical error. Life Care Centers of America has pled "not guilty" to these charges. We apologize for any inconvenience or issues this error may have caused.For more information...

• Medical Malpractice Crisis about the Operating Room and the Board Room, Not the Courtroom

  Ric Davis | June 27, 2007 6:05 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Study after study confirms that the medical malpractice "crisis" has its roots in the operating room, not the courtroom. A study released by HealthGrades, a consumer advocacy group that rates health care providers, found that an astonishing 1.2 million Medicare patients suffered "adverse safety incidents" in American hospitals over the two-year period, 2002-2004. Of those million-plus...

• Turmoil at the Golden Star Adult Family Home

  Michael Myers | March 04, 2007 3:35 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  Adult family homes, nursing homes and similar facilities care for some of our most important family members and friends. We have a shared responsiblity to make sure they treat our loved-ones with the care and respect they deserve. Against this backdrop, troubling news out of Everett about a species of abuse:The license of a Marysvillle adult family home has been revoked by the state, alleging...

• Continuous Streaming Therapy Using Dermastream Show Promise For Chronic Wound Care

  Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  Permanent wounds that never heal afflict over six million people in the U.S. The wound sometimes appear to heal but then return. Elderly nursing home residents see them as dangerous bed sores or...

• Mental Illness Trumps Dementia in Nursing Homes

  Dan Frith | August 19, 2009 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I thought I would share the results of a recently published study with the readers of this blog. The study, Trends in Mental Health Admissions to Nursing Homes,1999 - 2005 was published in...