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• Feeding Tubes

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 121
  I was appalled by this story in the Guardian this morning that residents entering some nursing homes are being required to have feeding tubes fitted as a condition of admission – this comes in a report from the Royal College of Physicians which recommends that artificial feeding should be used ‘as a last ...
  9 hours ago

• Signs of Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 157
  When our loved ones are placed in nursing home, full-time care environments, we put our trust in the management, attending physicians, nurses and other staff to take excellent care of our family membe… Continue reading here: Signs of Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect
  16 hours ago

• Brooklyn Nursing Home To Pay $19 Million In Abuse Case

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 145
  A Brooklyn nursing home has been ordered to pay a huge amount in damages to a family whose loved one allegedly died as a result of abject neglect. According to Fox News, citing attorneys involved in the Brooklyn, New York case, the nursing home abuse lawsuit is the first of its kind in the [...]
  23 hours ago

• Medicaid Long-Term Care Spending Tops $106 Billion

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 653
  Long-term care represents 32.1 percent of total Medicaid spending according to a new report. As costs rise, the program is raising serious budget problems for numerous states.
  1 day ago

• GAO looks into why nursing home evals are flawed

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  The Government Accountability Office has followed up its May 2008 report that found a high level of inconsistency in nursing home evaluations ( PDF ) with a blockbuster sequel: Addressing the Factors Underlying Understatement of Serious Care Problems Requires Sustained CMS and State Commitment (PDF). In this ...
  1 day ago

• Company cashier looted of Rs.230,000 at gunpoint

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Ghaziabad, Jan 4 (IANS) Two motorcycle-borne men looted the cashier of an edible oil trading firm of Rs.230,000 at gunpoint in Hapur town of Ghaziabad district Monday, police said.Sunil, a cashier with Shivam Traders, was taking the cash to a bank in Raghvir Nagar area of the city when the two motorcycle riding men ...
  2 days ago

• The Goblet and the Wine

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 133
  I feel that we are designed by Nature to be in unceasing and regenerative development; that we are meant to reveal and fulfill potential — to our very last breath and probably beyond. Unfortunately, we live amid a culture that condemns and denies both potential and age. Time is the instrument not of maturation but ...
  3 days ago

• Six Indictments in Scam Allegedly Targeting Nursing Home Residents

  
  National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse — Authority: 141
  State officials recently arrested six people suspected in a scam that allegedly bilked Jackson nursing home residents out of more than $25,000. The arrests include a former administrator and social worker at Belhaven Senior Care, where all of the victims lived, according to Attorney General Jim Hood. Ponchie ...
  3 days ago

• Scissors taken out from man’s stomach after two years (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Raipur, Jan 2 (IANS) A small pair of scissors left in a 60-year-old farmer’s stomach two years ago during an operation, leaving him in chronic pain, has finally been removed by doctors.The latest surgery took three long hours and was conducted late Friday at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, ...
  4 days ago

• New Years: A Wish, and Reflections

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 106
  I have one wish for 2010: I hope he doesnt survive the year. Sorry if this upsets you. My sense is that youll either get it or you wont. If youre bothered by it, heres something by way of comfort...
  5 days ago

• Nursing Assistant Accused of Sexual Assault in San Diego Nursing Home

  
  California Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog — Authority: 109
  A certified nursing assistant working in a San Diego nursing home is being held on charges of rape and elder abuse after being caught having sex with a nursing home resident. According to reports, an employee of the El Dorado Care Center in El Cajon walked into the room of an elderly patient and saw Felix Panem ...
  6 days ago

• New York City Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Results in $19M Award

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 444
  A New York City jury has awarded almost $19 million to the family of a 76-year-old nursing home patient that the family says developed more than 20 bedsores due to nursing home neglect . The New York nursing home lawsuit was filed by the family of John Danzy against the Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home. Danzy died in ...
  6 days ago

• Surveillance cameras record abuse

  
  South Carolina Nursing Home Blog — Authority: 128
  Lawyers and Settlements had an article about the lawsuit filed in a case where a surveillance camera captured images of nursing home abuse in what has been deemed the second-worst elder care facility in the nation, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). Richmond Health and Rehabilitation ...
  6 days ago

• Fighting Malnutrition and Dehydration

  
  National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse — Authority: 141
  Source: YouTube Video
  6 days ago

• Down the Lithium Road

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 106
  Saw him this afternoon for the first time since they started the lithium dose. Hes dramatically worse - though that may not be a bad thing. Last time he was incoherent. That makes it strange for me to to say...
  6 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• Complaint filed in pressue ulcer case

  
  South Carolina Nursing Home Blog — Authority: 128
  The Madison Record had an article about a recent complaint filed by Steven Steiner against Caseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Caseyville Property.  Theresa Mary Steiner died after employees at an Illinois nursing home allowed her pressure sores to deteriorate, causing sepsis to flow throughout her ...
  1 week ago

• Ghost Hunter Camera Footage–Nursing Home

  
  Image-Acquire.com — Authority: 529
  Related Posts Starter Ghost Hunting Kit with “Ghost Tech” BuZZ Links 15 Jul 08 BuZzLinks Elivision 17” LCD Screen for Doors Tags: Camera , ghost , ghost hunter , ghost hunting , Infrared , nursing home , security camera Related posts Starter Ghost Hunting Kit with “Ghost ...
  1 week ago

• Nursing Home to Fight Elder Abuse Verdict

  
  California Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog — Authority: 109
  We blogged earlier about the $7.75 million dollar verdict a 71-year-old stroke victim was awarded after she proved to a civil jury that she was abused by caregivers in her nursing home . The ladys family decided to place a hidden camera near the bed of Maria Arellano, and caught some ghastly footage of an attendant ...
  1 week ago

• German tourist seriously injured in fall at Taj Mahal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Agra, Dec 29 (IANS) A 45-year-old German woman tourist Tuesday fell off a platform and injured herself while seeking a vantage place to photograph the beauty and grandeur of the Taj Mahal, officials said.The tourist was apparently lost in admiring the 17th century marble wonder while taking photographs. “But she ...
  1 week ago

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