Nursing Home

News

1. Report: More Support Needed for Kinship Caregivers

   Wed, 23 May 2012

   62, of Baltimore, raised two of her grandchildren for many years while also working full-time as supervisor of an assisted living facility. The children's mother — Middleton's daughter — had struggled with drug problems and their father died of
2. Jim Abdnor, Former US Senator From SD, Dies at 89

   Wed, 16 May 2012

   but spent winters in Fort Myers, Fla., where he played golf and went to spring training baseball games. He moved to assisted living in late 2010. He was born in 1923, the son of Lebanese immigrants. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration
3. BC-Lifestyles Digest

   Wed, 16 May 2012

   Nathan "Nick" Horowitz faced one serious health crisis after another before their doctor said they had to move into an assisted living center. They had only one condition — they weren't going anywhere without their dog. Hundreds of places across the county
4. 
   Philadelphia Woman, 73, Says Age Has Kept Her Unemployed for Two Years

   Wed, 16 May 2012

   discrimination in the workplace," she said. Unemployed, and with her husband, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, in a nursing home , Whitelaw's income is from Social Security benefits and food stamps of $35 a month. She said she has sent out "hundreds
5. 
   Senior Living Centers Across US Accept More Pets

   Wed, 16 May 2012

   said they had to move into an assisted living center. They had only one condition enter rest homes or skilled nursing homes , Cumings said. Then came the independent living centers, assisted living complexes and memory centers
6. BC-Lifestyles Digest

   Mon, 14 May 2012

   Nathan "Nick" Horowitz faced one serious health crisis after another before their doctor said they had to move into an assisted living center. They had only one condition — they weren't going anywhere without their dog. Hundreds of places across the county
7. Tenn. College Sweethearts to Marry 60 Years Later

   Sat, 12 May 2012

   Two residents of a Tennessee assisted living center plan to marry on Sunday, more than 60 years after they first met. The State Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/IYjAFw

Videos

1. 
   Music Brings Dementia Patients Back to Life

   Wed, 11 Apr 2012

   first met him do very isolated. Comes into a nursing home they start to feel very disconnected from life and who could always. If you can imagine somebody who hasn't recognized they

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   first met him do -- very isolated. Comes into a nursing home they start to feel very disconnected from life and who could always. If you can imagine somebody who hasn't recognized they loved
2. 
   Hug a Newsman Day

   Wed, 4 Apr 2012

   this man in Cleveland was at a nursing home dressed as the Easter Bunny role of Easter Bunny at this nursing home police they're gonna that this costume at a time police got to the nursing homes he missed out a whole comical

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   for -- right here so this man in Cleveland was at a nursing home dressed as the Easter Bunny. Doing his thing with -- the residents there entertaining them Easter Bunny and all of this. But to convince. And that he does correlate to this -- and what does he then was arrested on an outstanding warrant while he was playing the role of -- Easter Bunny at this nursing home police they're gonna -- that this guy twice and year old Justin. The dean haynesville. All of that -- home doing his money being who actually lose money they want to arrested for stealing dvds from the Sam's Club store. Unfortunately was not -- costume at a time police got to the nursing homes he missed out a whole comical scene of the use of an inning put in the back of the squad -- here
3. 
   Revolutionizing Nursing Homes

   Mon, 25 Jun 2007

   a new kind of nursing home not grim and do you make a nursing home inviting. With people think nursing homes are institutions problem unlike most nursing homes here you get is this. This nursing home is not built

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   is growing. So tonight we're gonna look at a new kind of nursing home not grim and impersonal like the stereotypical or -- over the past. But more like a real hall how do you make a nursing home inviting. With our series role reversal your aging parents and you here's Dan Harris.

   The biggest pain in nursing home is really caused by loneliness. Helplessness. And --

   It really it is -- partners. Here's a heart problem unlike most nursing homes here you get your own private room you can even bring your own furniture. But the big -- design innovation here is this. This nursing home is not built around a nursing station it is built. Around the kitchen. Employee turnover has dropped from 90% to 10%. In
4. 
   Nursing Home Fire Blamed on Makeshift Meth Lab

   Tue, 6 Mar 2012

   Please and Ohio are blaming a deadly fire and nursing home on a makeshift meth The fire erupted in a male residents room at the park even nursing home in Ashton will look. He was killed and six other people including two residents were injured

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   Please and Ohio are blaming a deadly fire and nursing home on a makeshift meth -- The fire erupted in a male residents room at the park even nursing home in Ashton will look. He was killed and six other people including two residents were injured. Drug charges are now pending against
5. 
   Nursing Home Abuse Caught by Hidden Camera

   Thu, 7 Apr 2011

   describe only as humiliating. Taunting an abusive of the and in this case. The alleged abuse occurred last week the upscale assisted living facility quads Rangel would have referred. The victim's family raised concerns prior to this about possible abuse. The

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   The alleged abuse occurred last week -- the upscale assisted living facility quads Rangel would have referred. The victim's family raised concerns prior to this -- about possible abuse.
6. 
   Medicare Rates Nursing Homes

   Fri, 19 Dec 2008

   which rates nursing homes across this country. Nursing home abuse has look for nursing home compare it pulled up 32 nursing homes . In within sores in the nursing home more more s how the nursing homes are ranked

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   score and this comes after Medicare launched a new website which rates nursing homes across this country. Nursing home abuse has been a serious problem in this country so can this website actually help family members choose the best care for

   to make that decision to put relative or loved one in a nursing home . And and then to note that nursing home is a good nursing home is right for them. We'll Medicare thinks it can help on the website -- go to www. Medicare dot gov and then look for nursing home compare it's really easy to use it tried it. He could put in your zip code for example and I did that pulled up 32 nursing homes . In within ten miles of my home and work with He easily able to see how they stacked up according to Medicare. Many -- giving these nursing homes a rating of one to five stars five stars being the best one star being the worst. And they're looking at a couple of different things in this ratings they're looking at how did that nursing come due on health inspections. How does it do on quality measures for example. What what's going on with -- bed sores in the nursing home more more more mobility and they're also looking at staffing issues and so that's how the nursing homes are ranked. And it's very easy to use you can take a look and see at least according to Medicare what's the worst and what looks like the best. Now the Associated Press has done an analysis looking at the Medicare data. The states which have the lowest rated homes in the highest rated ones forced states according to the Associated Press have the highest percentage. Of only one start nursing homes and that's Louisiana. Georgia Virginia and Tennessee and then on the other side there are on states that have five stars high percentage of five star nursing homes . Delaware Alaska. New Hampshire and Hawaii. Now industry officials do say look some states are stricter on their ratings and others when they go in on inspections so. You can't entirely trust they say these ratings and in fact they say. That. This roll out is rather poorly planned and premature and may not give a totally accurate picture. These nursing homes and even on the consumer side while they applaud this move. They say some of the ratings may not be entirely accurate for a different reason they're saying some of the staffing levels for example or self reported by nursing homes so. They may not be entirely accurate so everyone is urging this as a first step to take a look at these. But even the government says He got to go visit the nursing home you can't just take the rating as gospel and in fact these ratings are dynamic. They'll be upgraded every month C should
7. 
   Nursing Home Employees on Trial for Over Drugging

   Tue, 5 Jan 2010

   seniors abused in nursing homes from physical this bucolic nursing home nestled in the rural California nursing home may be an extreme the number of nursing home residents are drugs is rising. Nursing homes are now giving

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   What happened in this bucolic nursing home nestled in the California mountains shocked investigators. When residents of the current -- nursing home complained or annoyed Glenn Hughes California prosecutors say the nursing director chemically restrained him with powerful anti psychotic drugs. Three died to

   quiet. To manage them. What happened here in this rural California nursing home may be an extreme case. But experts say over drugging is common nationwide in the number of nursing home residents are being given these drugs is rising. Nursing homes are now giving anti psychotic to one in four patients some suggest the replacing physical restraints now illegal except as a last

   and Drug Administration official estimates each year unnecessary anti psychotic kill 151000. Nursing home patients like Fannie Mae Brinkley. John -- ABC news lake Isabella California.