Nursing Home Advocate Appalled by Nursing Home Experience
Posted on August 2011
A Minnesota nursing home advocate was admitted to a nursing home for a week of rehabilitation after surgery on her…
Read More →Malnutrition and Dehydration in Nursing Homes Now Rivals the Third World
Posted on July 2011
It is a horrifying fact that more than 31 percent of nursing home residents suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, according…
Read More →Chemical Restraints In Nursing Homes Now Considered An Epidemic
Posted on July 2011
Where once nursing homes residents were restrained by leather bonds or cloth ties, many nursing home staff are now relying…
Read More →Hidden Between the Sheets: When Elder Abuse is Sexual
Posted on July 2011
It’s difficult to say that one type of elder abuse is more abhorrent than another. Yet when elder abuse takes…
Read More →Nursing Home Staff Are Required to Report Elder Abuse
Posted on July 2011
As part of the Health Care Reform Bill (often called Obama Care), passed in March 2010, The Elder Justice Act…
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