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The attorney general for the state of Illinois recently proposed strategies for protecting nursing home residents from assaults by other nursing home residents with criminal histories. The Attorney General was motivated by a series of newspaper articles describing assaults, rapes and murder by mentally ill criminals who also lived in the nursing homes. The Attorney [...]
A recently published study in the British Medical Journal makes the point that not-for-profit nursing homes provide better care for their residents than nursing homes motivated by profit. The study concluded that the not-for-profit nursing homes had more and higher quality staffing, fewer in-house acquired pressure ulcers, less frequent use of restraints and were found [...]
Our nursing home abuse clients are always surprised when we tell them about the kind of insurance nursing homes usually have. We tell them nursing homes basically do not have insurance. Our clients then respond by asking, “Doesn’t the Florida Legislature require insurance?” The answer to that question is that the Legislature has failed to [...]
Your mother used to tell you to “play nice.” What she meant was don’t hit your friends, don’t yell at them, don’t ignore them, don’t take things away from them, share and don’t call them names. Your mom usually told you to “play nice” when you were violating one of these rules. You were probably [...]
If you are young, you are probably not thinking about feeding tubes. If you are middle aged, you may be thinking about feeding tubes in relation to elderly parents but not yourself. If you are elderly, time is running out to think about feeding tubes.
Of course no one likes to think about feeding tubes. And, [...]
Nursing home care is expensive. Many people do not have long-term care insurance and cannot afford to pay It’s a private nursing home fees. The result is that government pays for a great deal of nursing home care through Medicare and Medicaid.
The problem is that because these programs taken together do not pay well they [...]
It certainly seems like common sense that if you have a medical emergency you should go to a hospital emergency room. If you are so sick that you need intensive care you should be in the hospital. Unfortunately some administrators at assisted living facilities do not seem to have this kind of common sense.
Assisted living [...]
There used to be a frequent television commercial for a roach-exterminating product called “roach motel.” The product’s slogan was something to the effect of, “Roaches go in, but they don’t come out.” Obviously this would not be a good slogan for hospitals, “Patients come in, but they don’t go out.”
Florida state government now has a [...]
“Superbugs” such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus and a new strain of Clostridium difficile are becoming much more prevalent. They are difficult to resolve, require more powerful antibiotics with side effects and sometimes cause death. They are especially dangerous if you have a co-occurring challenging health condition. Our clients come to us with difficult stories about how [...]
No one wants to go to a nursing home. Everyone in a nursing home is sick. We tend to put off discussions about poor health and taking care of documents we will need if we have to go to a nursing home. However, those discussions and documents are critically important and can make a very [...]
