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• CARE HOMES (UK)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  3 December 2009   Yesterday the Aged Care Channel broadcast a programme on elder abuse, hosted by AEA, which was received by several hundred care homes who subscribe to this specialist learning channel. The questions raised by care staff at the end of the two broadcasts were challenging and reinforced the ...
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• State Report Raises Concerns About Nursing Home Employee Responsibilities (VA. USA)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  State report raises concerns about nursing home employee responsibilities By   MICHAEL OWENS   Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier Not every member of National Healthcare Bristol’s nursing home staff knew they were required by law to report patient abuse, according to an October ...
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• Nursing Home Left Without Heat (IRELAND)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  A housing association has apologised after residents in a nursing home were left without heat for more than 24 hours. 03 December 2009 Oil ran out at the Marriott House in Magherafelt and relatives of residents said carers were using kettles to get hot water to wash the elderly occupants. ...
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• Nursing Home Kickbacks and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Them

  
  Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on Aging and Health Care — Authority: 418
  Pharmacy giant Omnicare recently agreed to pay a $98 million settlement in connection with allegations it engaged in an illegal kickback scheme with drug maker Ivax. The same day, officials filed an additional complaint against Omnicare and nursing home giants Mariner and SavaSenior Care in relation to other alleged ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• On the Night My Father Died

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 535
  Erika Raes father is dying and all she can do is knit a hairy scarf for her pre-tween niece and sing. This probably isnt that unusual, except that on the 100th round of Amazing Grace, it is likely that he voluntarily opted out of his current situation a little earlier than planned. Perhaps it helped, after all.
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• Nursing Homes Sometimes Wrongly Blamed in Medication Misuse

  
  Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on Aging and Health Care — Authority: 418
  A recent article in the Chicago Tribune examines the roles physicians play in nursing home care, particularly when it comes to medication management. When physicians or psychiatrists prescribe a drug for a patient, facilities must administer it as long as the order is consistent with state and federal nursing home ...
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• "OOPS!"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I almost killed an old lady the other day.  I have been volunteering at a nursing home for two years to visit with Suzanne, a 96-year-old woman who, despite being blind and crippled, was one of the most lucid, cultured and intelligent people on her unit, staff included. (See "Suzanne Takes You Down..." ) Until she ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Inquiry Call Over Care Home Body (Wales)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  25 November 2009 By Hywel Griffith BBC Wales health correspondent There are calls for an independent inquiry into the body that inspects care homes in Wales after a BBC investigation showed some are repeatedly failing to meet basic standards. The Week In Week Out Who Cares in Wales ...
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• Learn How to Land a Job as a Home Health Care Nurse

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  Why are there so many people who want to become home health care nurses ? By 2020, the world will need almost one million nurses, as more and more population will be getting old or sick for various reasons. This will make it easier and more desirable to land a job in this field someday. Moreover, the nursing ...
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• Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today

  
  Your Learning Guide In Surgery And Surgical Treatments — Authority: 123
  Medical News: Docs Feel Stress When Patients Cant Make Own Decisions - in Geriatrics, General Geriatrics from MedPage Today
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• Shifting Vaccine for Flu to Elderly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  SUPPLY Nursing homes say they have gotten fewer vaccine doses than expected.
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• Californians Seeking Home Based Healthcare – Watch for More Monitoring Devices To Interact

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  The California HealthCare Foundation now has a page for additional information and yes, just due to our population numbers in California it makes sense that we would have more individuals looking for Home Based Healthcare.  In short, this means devices are on the way, home monitoring, PHR or personal health ...
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• My philosophy of "Old Stuff"

  
  Mamas*Little*Treasures — Authority: 124
  Ive always known (kind of) about the Chinese culture, which holds great reverence for their ancestors and elderly relatives.  So much so, that sons of Chinese families, traditionally, care for their aging parents, while daughters typically marry into another family and help care for the aging parents of their ...
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• Journal of Medical Ethics 2009 (Vol. 35, No. 11)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 141
  Journal of Medical Ethics 2009 (Vol. 35, No. 11) content page Fade Fave: Autonomy at the end of life: life-prolonging treatment in nursing homes—relatives’ role in the decision-making process Fade Skinny: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent ...
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• Care Home Let Gran, 90, Wander Out and Freeze to Death (UK)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  By  Nick Owens   22/11/2009 No one noticed for three hours A woman of 90 died from hypothermia after she wandered away from her care home for 16 hours. Former nurse Margaret Titchmarsh froze to death when she disappeared on a bitterly cold night in a thin summer dress. ...
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• An Emotional Week… or So

  
  Walking Therein — Authority: 121
  In the past few months, we have had a lot of death in our family and on our farm. I know they have been learning experiences and times to draw on Yahweh himself and also draw closer to each other. In the past month, we have had 2 Grandfathers pass away and a new Baby [...]
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• If I Were An Inventor...

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  I smiled at this doodad in Japan. From the CrunchGear blog : A research laboratory at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University has developed a monitoring system for wet diapers that consists of a self-powered sensor/transmitter and a receiver and is supposed to assist staff in hospitals and nursing homes in performing ...
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