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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...

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...

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...

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...

Nursing homes rely on a number of staff members to provide care for both their long-term and their short-term residents. Many of these staff members are simply nurse’s aides or administrative staff members, but there is also a need for...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offer a website that compares nursing homes and gives them ratings so that loved ones can make informed decisions for the care of their elderly family members. However, those ratings might be a...

Among the elderly population, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries. The statistics are grim. An elderly American dies from injuries sustained in a fall every 19 minutes. Further, an elder adult is treated in emergency...