Three nursing home residents in California recently died from the effects of powerful medications used as a chemical restraint.  One woman, described by her family as a feisty and energetic 97 year old, suddenly seemed tired and difficult to rouse.  Her family did not know that she was being given a powerful seizure medication to [...]

A new study suggests that the risk of premature death among older adults who suffer abuse is more than double that of seniors who live free of ill treatment. The study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Rush University study was in-depth. Researchers [...]

Jury Awards 7.5M In Nursing Home Abuse Case. When the family of a 71 year old stroke victim in a nursing home noticed bruises and complained to management, management failed to respond.  So the family set up a hidden video camera on a side table in her room.  The camera caught a care worker slapping the resident, [...]

A recent 54.5M award against a health services company shows that jurors will award large amounts in order to punish bad conduct by nursing and residential care homes.  A resident who could not speak or perform daily functions on his own was raped while in the care of a New Mexico group home, probably by [...]

The Brown University Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research has launched a website designed for nursing home researchers that will also be enthusiastically received by many consumer advocates looking for detailed data and more sophisticated comparison tools than provided on Nursing Home Compare. The interactive database, www.LTCfocUS.org, incorporates information from a number of government sources-Medicare [...]