Nursing Home News
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Activist's Story Highlights Importance of End-of-Life ConversationsAlexandra Drane, Co-Founder of Engage with Grace, Shares Why Having 'the Conversation' Is So Important
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Lotto-Winning Coworkers' Advice for $400 Million Mega Millions Jackpot
… with nine of her coworkers at a Staten Island, N.Y., nursing home , has very simple advice for those eying this Friday's ..... co-worker envy when they each returned to the 600 employee- nursing home the next day more than $60,000 richer. "Everybody is …
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Tuskegee Airman William Booker Dead at 90
… Airmen, William L. Booker, has died at the age of 90. Booker's family says he died Nov. 30 at a Kirkland, Wash., nursing home after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Booker served as a navigator and flight engineer on B-24 and B-25 bombers …
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Romance Novelist Ida Pollock Dies at 105
… has died at the age of 105. Daughter Rosemary Pollock said the centenarian author of more than 120 books died Dec. 3 at a nursing home near her house in Lanreath, southwest England. Born in London in 1908 and raised by a single mother, Pollock had her first …
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Suffering From Alzheimer's, Ga. Man Fatally Shot
… because of what he believed to be a real and imminent threat." A retired nurse who once cared for dementia patients in a nursing home , Westbrook's wife was perhaps better equipped than most to care for a spouse with Alzheimer's. The progressive disease …
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Is it SAD or Something Else? Surprising Causes of Winter Depression… of year," says Ehrman. If you're feeling blue about sitting on the sidelines, make a difference by volunteering at a nursing home , homeless shelter, or hospital—you'll be helping yourself as much as others. You're drinking too much If seasonal …
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Hoarder of Nazi-Looted Art Treasures Calls Paintings Love of His Life… an internist, is hundreds of kilometers away from Munich. He's an amiable man who tries to convince him to move into a nursing home . Gurlitt's descriptions paint a picture of an important senior physician in a private hospital. In fact, the doctor …
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Hundreds Turn Up to Lay Lonely Veteran to Rest After Obit Goes Viral
… roughly 500 people showed up to honor the former RAF bomber command ground crew member who had passed away Oct. 25 in his nursing home . It was a "very special atmosphere," BBC News correspondent Danny Savage told GoodMorningAmerica.com of the funeral …
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Lice Land on Growing List of Superbugs… chairman of prevention at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. MRSA infections usually strike elderly hospital inpatients or nursing home residents. But the number of MRSA cases out in the community is on the rise, according to the NIH. It can spread among …
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Harper Lee's Hometown Museum Fires Back at 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Author… a private agreement. Lee's lawyers argued that the agent took advantage of the old age of the author, who was in an assisted - living facility when she signed a document that assigned her copyright to the book. In Photos: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Author …
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Oklahoma Sunken Cars: Mysteries Solved for Families With Vanished Relatives… may have happened and wondered if her grandfather had been robbed and killed by a hitchhiker or living as a John Doe in a nursing home with dementia. But none of those situations felt right. She handed her family had a different theory. "As the years rolled …
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Fighting ALS and Insurance Denials… than the evidence of my particular case. In 2005, my insurance company case manager suggested I might like to move to a nursing home . No way! My health insurance company wanted to stop paying for what little home nursing I had. This was a big deal for …
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7 Steps to Reduce Stroke Risk… years ought to be spent strapped to the fighting chair of a game-fisher while battling a black marlin, not tethered to a nursing - home bed, incontinent and unable to talk. But the latter is a likely scenario if you're one of approximately 600,000 Americans …
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Anxiety In Your Head Could Come From Your Gut… programs. Doctors have also been using fecal transplants to seniors when their gastrointestinal health is compromised in nursing home living. And now, scientists think there may be a link between what's in your gut and what's in your head, suggesting …
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Wisconsin Woman's Awe-Inspiring Obituary a 'Must Read'
… that." Mullaney, a devout Catholic who volunteered in a nursing home and delivered Communion up until age 81, also had kind and ..... chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after Mass. Go to a nursing home and kiss every person there, and let them have Communion …
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Aging Together: A New Way to Avoid Late-Life Loneliness… including some of their habits. They didn't want a retirement home, with its long hallways. They couldn't afford an assisted living facility or in-home care. They are experiencing a new model, and the question is whether it can become a model for larger …
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Eight Years After Katrina: St. Rita's Owners 'Still Feel the Stigma'
Eight years ago today, nursing home owners Sal and Mabel Mangano say ..... water crashed in St. Rita's Nursing Home , the Manganos were charged with ..... now 70, built St. Rita's Nursing home in 1985 and were lulled into a …
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Harold and Ruth Knapke, Married 65 Years, Die 11 Hours Apart… at the age of 89, according to Romie. They both passed away in the room they'd shared for the past two months in a nursing home near Russia, Ohio, where they'd moved about six years ago to be closer to their daughter, Pat, a nurse. "Mom had …
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Meet the Top 10 Richest Members of Congress… even own part of The Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. 10. Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio -- $35.9 million Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, made his millions by starting LTC Management Services, a company that owns and operates nursing homes .
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Young Doctors Pave Way for End-of-Life ConversationsDoctors at Kent Hospital in Warwick, R.I., are breaking new ground — but it’s not the old guard — it’s the residents, those doctors fresh out of medical school and in the throes of training, who are demanding to be taught how to interact with their...
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Dying on Twitter: Radio Host Scott Simon Breaks Old Barriers Charting Mother's Death… that," said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. Parents suffer wrongful deaths in assisted living . "It's not that he should or shouldn't do it; that's for him to decide and discuss with his mom and other relatives …
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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, July 30, 2013
… health care costs rose in the 12 months ending in May at the slowest rate in the last 50 years, as spending on hospital and nursing home services declined, the White House announced Monday. Personal consumption spending rose 1.1%, Alan Krueger, chairman …
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Dad Dies After Drinking Poison in Assisted Living… and Death in Assisted Living " will air tonight ..... company in the assisted living business. It ..... considers many assisted living options and ..... these units for nursing homes to keep beds ..... corridors of a nursing home where they saw …
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Limited-English Speakers on the Rise in U.S.… in construction and extraction, while women were more likely to have personal care jobs like caring for the elderly in assisted living facilities. Only about half the immigrant population in 2011 fell into the LEP category. The other half speak English …
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Feds Charge Florida Over Mishandling of Disabled Children… and isolated in nursing homes when they should ..... to live in a nursing home for three years ..... child stuck in a nursing home , a teen in a wheelchair, asked nursing home staff members ..... disabled children in nursing homes seemed banished …
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'Whitey' Bulger's Once Feared Pals Now Geriatric GangstersThe Boston courtroom for the murder trial of James "Whitey" Bulger has resembled a nursing home at times. Bookmaker Dick O'Brien , 84, was wheeled into federal court in a wheelchair. Another bookie, James Katz, 73, brought …
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Brooke Astor's Son Convicted of Swindling Multimillionaire Mother Headed to Prison… a shared cell, an infirmary bed in a medical facility or a regional medical unit, which Mailey said is comparable to a nursing home in terms of the care inmates receive. Despite his advanced age, Marshall will become the fourth-oldest inmate in New …
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Fast Thinking Saves Lives From Stroke
… increased likelihood of walking out and a 3 percent increased chance of heading home instead of going to a rehab center or nursing home . Pediatric Stroke Often Misdiagnosed, Treatment Delayed A stroke is a major reduction in the normal flow of blood to the …
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Gonorrhea Tops List of Scary Superbugs… because it could become more widespread," Schaffner said. MRSA infections usually strike elderly hospital inpatients or nursing home residents. But the number of MRSA cases out in the community is on the rise, according to the NIH. It can spread between …
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The July Hike in Student Loan Interest Rates Explained… support rewarding yourself with a party when you do finally pay off those loans. We know we'll probably all be in senior assisted living facilities by then, but the Fusion digital team has already planned out some bingo ragers to celebrate. Bring the prune …
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Retired Couples Need $220K for Health Care… apply to retirees with traditional Medicare insurance coverage, not higher income-related premiums, and do not include nursing home care. As part of the estimate, Fidelity looked at monthly expenses associated with Medicare Part B and D premiums, co-payments …
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91-Year-Old Man Raises Money to Prevent Eviction by Daughter… her mother and stepfather for the last two years or so, when she learned that they had tried to place her grandfather in a nursing home , she said. Hoping to keep her grandfather in the home he built, Fraley started a campaign on GoFundMe.com , a crowd-fundraising …
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Llamas 'Kiss' Patients' Blues Away
… Camp Korey for children who have serious medical conditions, they set up a kissing booth. Her llamas also kiss patients at nursing homes and hospitals. "One guy wanted to kiss her but didn't want his wife to know," Kuklenski, 42, said. "I always enjoy …
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First Responders Knew Texas Plant Would Explode But Stayed, Firefighters Say… they stayed in order to buy time to evacuate residents at a nursing home . "All their actions - the EMT, the civilians - did delay ..... homes and a middle school and trapping 133 residents of a nursing home in rubble. Two firetrucks were also ripped apart. Through …
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Boom Predicted For At-Home Care Industry… tells ABC News, can be less costly than getting it in a nursing home or other non-home venue. The average Synergy client pays ..... average annual cost per patient for a year's stay in a nursing home , he says, is $70,000. How much of the cost for non-medical …