News tagged with 'Nursing Homes'

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.

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.  

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.

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.

When talking to a person with Alzheimer's, nurses from the University of Kansas discovered that "baby talk" often resulted in resistance from residents of a nursing home.  People retain their dignity and a sense of being an adult, despite the fact that they have a mind-diminishing disease, researchers found.