News tagged with 'Nursing Home and Elder Abuse'

Under the nursing home rating system, which is to go into effect today, the nation’s 16,000 nursing homes would receive stars based on state inspections, staffing levels, quality assessment such as the number of residents with pressure sores and even the cracks in the walls.

Ethicist Kirk O. Hanson, the Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California talks to IB news to try and make sense of the actions of abusive teen girls charged with harming elderly Alzheimer's patients. 

Having a "cognitive reserve" that may come from formal education, helped participants in this study withstand the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Nursing homes inspected by federal inspectors last year turned up 94 percent in violation of some health or safety standard. The for-profit homes had the worse record, while a breakdown of states showed Rhode Island had the fewest violations.  A five star rating system should be available on the web soon to rank facilities.

A new low in human behavior is observed in this surveillance videotaped death of a woman in a Brooklyn, N.Y. psychiatric hospital. No one comes to help. While the hospital is instituting changes, how many among us are capable of showing indifference?

Excessive dozing during the day is linked to stroke according to a new study. Particularly when the dozing occurs at inappropriate times, it may indicate one is not getting a restful night's sleep.

Getting older just got easier. For those who assume that memory loss is part of aging, think again. In fact thinking is what this study is all about. Memory loss and dementia are decreasing among seniors over the age of 70 during the last decade with improvement seen in people who are in better health and have more education. 

Even adding healthy habits later in life such as weight, diabetes and blood pressure control, not smoking and adding exercise, tended to result in a longer life of a higher quality for men, researchers find. 

A report released Thursday by the General Accounting Office (GAO), a special investigative branch of Congress, discusses the continuing problems with patient care in nursing homes. According to the GAO's data, 20 percent of the nation's 17,000 nursing homes were cited for violations between July 2000 and January 2002,

A fire broke out at a Connecticut nursing home Wednesday morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring nearly two-dozen others. Fire officials and a spokesperson for Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez told reporters that one suspect, a resident at the 150-bed Greenwood Health Care Center, was arrested and is being question

A California nursing home has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the family of a 92-year-old man who died due to neglect at the facility. According to the lawsuit, in June 2001, doctors discovered Angelo George at Cedar Manor Homes in Vista malnourished and severely dehydrated. Insects had reportedly crawled into Geo

The children of an 86-year-old man who died of pneumonia at a Texas nursing home in November 2001 have filed a lawsuit against the facility's operators. Reyes Uresti, a stroke victim, was a resident at Friendswood Arms Convalescent Center outside of Houston when he was accidentally left in a shower overnight. Houseke

The Department of Health and Human Services and several nursing home watchdog organizations are applauding the Bush Administration's release of data regarding the nation's 17,000 nursing homes, claiming the information will allow consumers to properly choose a qualified facility for loved ones. The material, published

A Missouri newspaper is publishing an in-depth report this week on the health hazards that nursing home patients face in the United States. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, hundreds of elderly nursing home patients die each year from neglect, mostly due to inadequate facility staffing. In the weeklong series

A new study conducted by German researchers from the University of Ulm reveals that patients who live in large nursing homes or in elderly-care facilities that house residents longer than six months increase their risk of contracting an infection. In the study, researchers examined 47 nursing homes accommodating anywh