The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is investing fifteen-million dollars into a creative alternative to nursing homes. Green Houses aim to replace large nursing homes with small, homelike facilitates for ten to twelve residents. There are presently forty-one Green Houses in ten states; the goal is to have them in all fifty states.
Jane Lowe, [...]

Click here to watch a video about elder care in Minnesota.  Rising costs and diminishing incomes are posing a problem for the quality of care in nursing homes.
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A Titusville nursing home is being sued for negligence in the death of an elderly woman. Watch the news clip here.
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An ex-nurse and her former supervisor are charged with giving unprescribed medication and excessive levels of morphine to four patients who later passed away at the Woodstock Residence nursing home in Illinois. To watch a short news clip on the arrests, click here.  Authorities are not charging the women with killing the patients, but state [...]

In our previous post, we discussed how pet therapy organizations across the United States are making a difference in nursing homes and boosting morale and health in the patients’ lives. 
At one nursing home, an employee of the facility just adopted two baby goats and has brought them with her to the home on repeated occasions.  [...]

Watch a video about a new therapy the popular gaming system, Wii, has brought to nursing home residents.
For residents that have grown tired of bingo and board games, Nintendo’s Wii has now offered them a chance to have fun and keep them active. [...]

There are conflicting reports over what actually happened to 65-year-old Virginia Hubbard, a resident at the Grande Oaks Nursing Home in Ohio.  Virginia was recently discharged from the facility for failure to pay anything for the services she received for approximately a year and a half.  Although the discharge may have been warranted, what allegedly [...]

The Elmhurst Extended Care Center in Providence, RI is not a place the elderly go to die; rather, it is a place they go to live. This facility boasts of happy residents, delicious food, and rooms built around a real kitchen instead of a nursing station. Residents are even allowed to bring their [...]

Too often, loved ones are abused and neglected by the people who are supposed to be caring for them. This ABC News clip shows a nursing home caretaker caught on hidden camera beating a 90-year old resident while he rests in bed. The video clip also goes on to show how everyday citizens react to [...]