NEW YORK (AP) -- Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year, and could rise further if a shortage of long-term care ...
Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, Congressional investigators say.
... said.
"At present, staff have few solutions available to them and typical interventions in the nursing home may have negative consequences for aggressive residents, including the use of psychotropic ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes?...
... stage and exercising formulated plans. Planning for staff shortages is also critical."
Half of the nursing homes in the study had stockpiled some commonly used supplies such as gloves and hand ...
... criticism from a society which has a traditional cultural reticence about placing parents into a nursing home, as such action is considered contrary to filial piety," Dr Wang said.
"However, this ...
... 2008, joined the lawsuit.
The operator of 18 skilled nursing homes across Southern California will pay $2 ...
Public Health officials in the Edmonton region have been visiting hospitals and nursing homes this week to check for stocks of recalled deli-style meats which have been linked to an outbreak of ...
... to a new study, such conclusions may be premature. Private equity purchases of nursing homes—many of which result in administrative and corporate restructuring—have not caused quality of care to ...
... for seniors are slamming the New Brunswick Health Department's decision not to notify nursing home residents in the province that they may have eaten food recalled in the listeriosis outbreak.
Most nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, a report said.
Seniors' advocates are calling for mandatory licensing of all businesses acting as nursing homes in light of allegations of elder abuse at a Dartmouth facility
A decision to retract an offer to test residents for listeriosis at a Toronto-area nursing home is being questioned by family members.
Bed rails are supposed to protect nursing-home patients from a fall, but a CBC I-Team ... dozens of incidents involving bed rails at Winnipeg homes - most resulting in injury, but some linked to deaths. ...
A follow up to a study that found half of nursing home residents were malnutritioned has revealed nutritional health can be maintained with nurse intervention.
