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    Nursing homes must take reasonable efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including coronavirus. If a facility breaches that duty, and a resident contracts coronavirus as a result, then that resident’s family may bring a lawsuit against...

  Coronavirus laws for nursing homes are a stricter extension of preexisting infection control protocols required of all facilities.  Federal and State laws have long required nursing homes implement infection prevention and control policies. As coronavirus spreads, those regulations are...

Bed Sore Stages with Pictures Understanding bed sore stages is important to keeping your loved one safe. Why? depending on the stage, bed sores may be a non-blanchable area of the skin or a massive hole in the body. It...

If a nursing home employee hurt your loved one, you may be able to sue the nursing home. The law requires nursing homes to take certain steps to prevent abuse from occurring in their facility. So, if a nursing home...

For most women, breast surgery is often one of the first courses of treatment for breast cancer. It often begins the path to being cancer-free. However, surgery is not always the best option for treatment. In some cases, the treatment...

While staff at nursing homes may be responsible for many cases of abuse and neglect, there is another kind of abuse that is taking place in long-term care facilities. That is resident-on-resident abuse. A 2014 study at Cornell University found...

Financial abuse may be rapidly becoming the most prevalent form of elder abuse taking place. 1 in 20 elders have reported some form of financial exploitation occurring recently. This may be vastly different than the actual number of elders experiencing...

One of the fastest growing groups of patients requiring dialysis care is those who are aged 75 and older. For many of the elderly receiving dialysis, their care is done through either long-term care facilities or through in-patient treatments. Because...

When a recent nursing home death attributed to dehydration made national headlines, some nursing homes and parent companies began trying to find a way to accurately assess dehydration. Elderly people may be particularly susceptible to dehydration, especially those in understaffed...

For residents in long-term care facilities, conditions inevitably come up that require treatment above and beyond the long-term care they may be getting. Colds, bedsores, and other common infections may be common, but they generally pose no threat unless left...