One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Are Treated with Antipsychotics, not Antidementia Drugs, New Study Shows

One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Are Treated with Antipsychotics, not Antidementia Drugs, New Study Shows

Antipsychotics Treat One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia, not Anti-dementia Drugs, New Study Shows Despite the announcement of a federal crackdown on inappropriate antipsychotics use in nursing homes, more than 20 percent of nursing home...
C. Diff Infections Abound in Nursing Homes, Putting the Vulnerable Elderly at Risk for Illness, Septic Shock, and Death

C. Diff Infections Abound in Nursing Homes, Putting the Vulnerable Elderly at Risk for Illness, Septic Shock, and Death

C. Diff Infections Abound in Nursing Homes, Putting the Vulnerable Elderly at Risk for Illness, Septic Shock, and Death The infection C. diff—Clostridioides difficile—is shockingly common in nursing homes, exposing highly vulnerable residents to serious, deadly...
Two New Jersey Nursing Assistants Attack Nursing Home Resident, Causing Critical Injury

Two New Jersey Nursing Assistants Attack Nursing Home Resident, Causing Critical Injury

Two Nursing Home Workers Attack Resident in New Jersey Facility, Causing Critical Injury: In a brutal example of nursing home malpractice, a New Jersey nursing home resident was attacked and critically wounded by two nursing home workers, reports a 6abc article....
Violent Resident-on-Resident Attacks Are Alarmingly Common in American Nursing Homes, and Facilities Are often Ill-equipped to Prevent Them

Violent Resident-on-Resident Attacks Are Alarmingly Common in American Nursing Homes, and Facilities Are often Ill-equipped to Prevent Them

Violent Resident-on-Resident Attacks Are Alarmingly Common in American Nursing Homes, and Facilities Are often Ill-equipped to Prevent Them: Violent resident-on-resident attacks in American nursing homes happen all too frequently, and the chances of them occurring...
Multiple New Jersey Nursing Homes Cited for Short-Staffing Violations

Multiple New Jersey Nursing Homes Cited for Short-Staffing Violations

Short-Staffing Violations in Multiple New Jersey Nursing Homes Result in Citations Placed:  Several New Jersey nursing homes have recently been cited by the Department of Health for staffing violations amounting to nursing home malpractice, says a New Jersey Spotlight...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Takes over DNA Testing in Choking Death of Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident

Pennsylvania Attorney General Takes over DNA Testing in Choking Death of Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident

Choking Death of Philadelphia Nursing Home Resident leads to Pennsylvania Attorney General Taking over DNA Testing A hair discovered on a paper wipe found lodged in the throat of Cheryl Yewdall, a 50 year-old Philadelphia nursing home resident with cerebral palsy and...