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Death of spouse ups odds of nursing home care

An older person's likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates.

Sentosa Corporation Persecutes Nurses

Sentosa Corporation, purveyors of poor nursing home care throughout it's twenty five nursing homes in the State of New York, is persecuting a group of Philippine Nurses, who walked off the job to protest poor care at the facility they worked at.

Staffing Ratios At Nursing Homes Must Be Mandated

In 2003, two nursing home residents were admitted to a nursing home in New York with pressure sores.  Both residents were given care plans that included regular skin assessment, turning and positioning. 

Within months, the residents developed multiple pressure sores and one resident developed renal failure partly caused by skin breakdown.  The state inspector attributed the failure to administer care plans to a “systems breakdown” caused by staffing issues including lack of communication, high turnover and use of agency staffing.

Nursing Home Indicted in Elderly Woman's Death

Only One Nursing Home in Baghdad

There is only one   nursing home in Baghdad, a city of 5 million   people. The Shamayea Nursing Home, opened in the 1930s, accepts all Iraqis based on what many residents say, it is their home of last resort. The nursing home cares for people without families or whose families have abandoned them.

Escape From the Nursing Home

By IRA ROSOFSKY, New York Times Opinion               

LUCKY you. You just won the lottery, and you’re getting a payout of $75,000 a year! Just in time. You’re frail, and at age 65 you wonder how far your measly Social Security check will go. MORE

 

In fight over nursing home bed, lessons for both sides

By Saul Friedman, Newsday

Mary O'Neill, 87, who sleeps most of the time now and who her daughters say doesn't have many days left, is happy, nevertheless. She's back, at last, in the nursing home  bed that had been denied her for months.

Newsday Article

Residents’ Rights while Living in a Nursing Home

The rights of nursing home residents are codified in both federal and state statutes with the intent of further protecting each resident’s civil, religious, and human rights while they reside in a nursing facility. 

How To Complain About A Nursing Home

By Jack Halpern

Check out my answer at "Ask The Expert" on the Caregivers Home Companion Website.

http://www.caregivershome.com/community/askexpert_full.cfm?UID=91

ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS IN NURSING HOMES

ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS IN NURSING HOMES ARE FAR MORE COMMON THAN PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED

Injuries from adverse drug events in the long-term care setting are more common than previously documented, and largely preventable, according to the findings of a study published in The American Journal of Medicine.