Today the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Special Committee on Aging will hear arguments both for and against the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act. The joint committee met today at 10:30am in the Senate Dirksen Office Building. They discussed the pros and cons of barring arbitration agreements as a prerequisite [...]

The Parkside Nursing Care Center in Yakima, WA, has been struggling lately with serious regulation problems. They were cited again on Tuesday for failing to tend to an elderly man suffering from severe bed soars. That patient soon died from an infection at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. There was no definitive [...]

According to a new report, Utah inspectors have cited nearly one-third of Utah’s nursing homes for a call light violation in the past two years. The call lights, which are located outside of every room, are how the elderly signal to nurses they are in need of help. However, according to inspectors, [...]

As previously mentioned, this past Sunday was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Individuals in cities and towns throughout the nation, gathered to discuss the ongoing problem of elder abuse in our country. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, for example, University of Nebraska Omaha Assistant Professor of Gerontology Christopher Kelly discussed [...]

There are multiple types and definitions of abuse and, unfortunately, the elderly tend to fall victim to almost all of them. People often pray on their vulnerability and weakness. Some different forms of abuse consist of the following.
There’s physical abuse which ranges from inflicting or threatening to inflict physical pain, or even depriving someone [...]

The annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is this Sunday, June 15, 2008. On this day states, countries, and the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) will be recognizing and raising awareness of disabled adults and persons 65 and older who suffer due to abuse, neglect or exploitation. [...]

Recently, the State Veteran Home in Arizona violated ten state and federal licensing standards. The investigation began about a month ago when the residents were found in immediate jeopardy. The violations included, but were not limited to, the staff discharging a patient who was unable to care for himself, rigging [...]

A new innovative therapy has been developed that eases dementia in elderly nursing home patients. A study at several Dutch nursing homes found that exposing dementia patients to about nine hours of bright light improved their brain function. According to a paper appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association tomorrow, the treatment reduced [...]

Kern Valley Healthcare District, which was put on “immediate jeopardy”—jeopardizing patients’ health—twice last year, is once again being investigated by the State Department of Justice for over prescribing medication. According to federal reports, the nursing facility has been disciplined before for over prescribing psychiatric medicine and having a high medication [...]

Westside Healthcare Nursing Home in Price Hill, Ohio is under much investigation due to a recent report. Its conditions have been called “deplorable,” and residents in the facility are in “real and present danger, due to unlocked medicine carts, unlabeled medicine, and no system to make sure drugs were properly administered or taken by residents.” [...]