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Report: Nursing Home Patients Given Potentially Lethal Anti-Psychotics
Is Medicare paying for nursing homes to give patients with dementia powerful, non-approved, and potentially lethal “atypical” anti-psychotic drugs? According to a recent highly critical report from the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the answer … Continue reading
Nursing Home Administrator Arrested for Financial Elder Abuse
It’s not surprising that older adults who suffer from Alzheimer’s are prime targets for elder abuse and financial elder abuse. Predatory caregivers are betting that any claims of abuse by a person with dementia are likely to be ignored or … Continue reading
Protect Your Aging Parents from Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Want to protect your aging parent or loved one from nursing home abuse and neglect? Don’t count on a facility’s promises that all their employees are screened, trained and supervised. In too many care facilities, incidents of self-reported elder abuse … Continue reading
Key Safety Tips to Avoid Nursing Nursing Home Neglect
Want to increase the odds that you or your aging parent is NOT neglected at a long-term care facility? One of the most important considerations is to make sure that the facility is near family and friends… …residents who are … Continue reading
Lawsuit Planned Over Nursing Home Abuse Caught on Hidden Camera
When the family of Lois McCallister caught 3 employees on a hidden camera abusing and humiliating their loved one at the Quadrangle Nursing Home in Haverford, Pa., it became national news. Since the story broke last month, the 3 staffers … Continue reading
Four CNAs Fired for Outrageous Nursing Home Abuse
Imagine someone told your elderly mother that she was going to die in a nursing home because her family didn’t love her. Now imagine that the “person” who said this was the certified nursing assistant at the nursing home where … Continue reading
Deadly Elder Abuse Brings Murder Charges, $100,000 Fine for Nursing Home
It’s hard to think of a more terrifying case of felony elderly abuse: A nursing home worker caught in the act of smothering an elderly bed-ridden resident to death with a pillow. But that’s why Maximo Hong Fajardo Jr. is facing … Continue reading
Nursing Home Criminal Background Checks Offer False Sense of Security
If you are evaluating long-term care facilities for an aging parent, ask if management runs criminal background checks on all their employees. But don’t let a “yes” answer give you a false sense of secruity. That’s because nursing homes in 33 … Continue reading
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect: “Like you dropped down into Hell”
This is a nursing home abuse and neglect story that will keep you awake at night — PRAYING that you or your aging parent will never experience the elderly abuse and neglect that Una Rosekind lived through… …She was placed … Continue reading
Minnesota Bill Adds Elder Abuse to State’s Offender Registry
Lawmakers in Minnesota are on the verge of making it easier to track nursing home workers who are convicted of violating the state’s Criminal Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult laws. “Sadly we’re finding that there’s been an increase in abuse … Continue reading