News tagged with 'Home'

About 20% of the nation's 16,000 nursing homes are providing low quality care, finds a survey. Consistently, the worst care was provided by for-profit nursing home corporations and chains.

This Homeland Security report blames FEMA for taking too long to respond to reports of dangerous formaldehyde in trailers used to house displaced persons from the 2005 hurricanes. Victims were exposed to possible health risks from formaldehyde, which is still found in some homes today. 

Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter is on life support after a treadmill accident Monday.   With more than 25,000 exercise equipment accidents each year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reports more than a quarter occur to children under the age of five.

Environmental Protection Agency tests of drywall made in China confirm it contains sulfur, not found in U.S.- made drywall, in addition to the metallic element, strontium, at ten times the level of domestic drywall. 

A CDC epidemiologist was often asked about injuries caused by pets. Now she has compiled the first ever report on pet-related injuries and finds that about 86,000 falls a year are pet-related. 

The Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act hopes to restore some dignity to the elderly who find themselves injured by a home, yet unable to have their day in court because of language agreed to in the small print of a nursing home contract.  

The daughter of an elderly couple, named in a Minnesota Department of Health investigation into nursing home abuse, is having a hard time finding out what happened. A Bush administration 11th hour rule change makes it easier for the industry to keep secrets.  

It is a mystery that will take 21 years to solve - how do solents, plastics, chemicals in our environment adversely affect children's health and disease. The NIH and CDC will examine more than 100,000 participants at 105 diverse sites around the country in this ambitious National Children's Health Study. 

A silver alert was issued for Ben C. Picauly, an 87-year-old man that went missing on Thursday, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. Silver Alerts, similar to Amber Alerts, but for elderly people has helped to located 19 people since Florida adopted the system in October.

Under the nursing home rating system, which is to go into effect today, the nation’s 16,000 nursing homes would receive stars based on state inspections, staffing levels, quality assessment such as the number of residents with pressure sores and even the cracks in the walls.

Ethicist Kirk O. Hanson, the Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California talks to IB news to try and make sense of the actions of abusive teen girls charged with harming elderly Alzheimer's patients. 

Two teenage girls are facing years in jail and thousands in fines, charged with abusing and sexually humiliating elderly Alzheimer's disease and dementia nursing home patients who couldn't fight back. Other teens allegedly watched and said nothing.

Having a "cognitive reserve" that may come from formal education, helped participants in this study withstand the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Nursing homes inspected by federal inspectors last year turned up 94 percent in violation of some health or safety standard. The for-profit homes had the worse record, while a breakdown of states showed Rhode Island had the fewest violations.  A five star rating system should be available on the web soon to rank facilities.

Homeowners trying to collect from big insurance companies are still having trouble, three years after Hurricane Katrina. Increasingly, on appeal, the Times-Picayune newspaper finds that Big Insurance is winning over homeowners.