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Hip fractures are serious fall injuries that often result in long-term impairment, nursing home admission and even death.
In the United States, hip fractures are the most common broken bone that requires hospitalization. In 2006, there were 316,000 hospital admissions for hip fractures in people age 65 and older–an increase of 7 percent from the previous [...]
As Congress continues to debate health care reform and medical liability, the American Association for Justice (AAJ) has released an extensive primer to dispel the myths of “tort reform” and underscore the importance of preventing medical errors and improving patient safety.
According to the Institute of Medicine, as many as 98,000 people die every year from [...]
Florida’s volunteer ombudsmen investigated 9,098 complaints against long term care facilities in 2010, more than they have ever investigated in the 35-year history of the program, according to the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.
In addition to record-high numbers of complaint investigations, volunteer and staff ombudsmen also completed 100 percent of the program’s prescribed facility assessments. [...]
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 [...]
