Blog: Nursing Home Abuse

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 all depends on the stage. Using the bed sore stages pictures on this site can …

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 might not even be wanted or even helpful, such as in the cases of nursing …

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 that 1 in 5 long-term care patients reported suffering from patient-on-patient abuse. Common forms of …

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 a majority of dialysis patients do reside in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, the …

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 nursing homes and long-term care facilities. However, assessing dehydration may not be as easy as …

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 untreated. Left untreated, conditions like bedsores can get into muscle tissue and eventually lead to …

The Trump administration has not been lauded for its stances on imposing fines to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. In fact, many in the industry believe that the lessening of fines and continuing to allow nursing homes to have arbitration clauses has not been a good thing. The Obama administration was tougher on …