A nursing home in Boynton Beach, Florida, is the site of one of the most recent cases of elder abuse in a Palm Beach County facility. In the shocking case, police arrested three women who worked at the facility for having allegedly abused an elderly patient...
Elder abuse is harmful to patients physically and mentally. Many patients already struggle with mental health diagnoses, but others simply struggle with physical concerns. An attack of any kind at a nursing home or by an aide could start an elder on a path to...
When you hear stories about people being neglected by nursing homes, you may not understand how it can happen. How can patients, who have charts and are on nursing rounds, not receive their medications? How do nurses fail to respond to calls for assistance? If you...
Elder abuse is a problem that is pervasive in America. Many people who suffer from it do so as a result of being unable to recognize the abuse or being unable to report it. Some live in isolation. Some elderly people actually abuse themselves. If you have a loved one...
Before moving into an assisted-living facility, it is crucial for you to develop a personal plan to maintain your safety. Many supportive living communities offer amenities and staffing to accommodate most needs. Despite many facilities taking extraordinary measures...
Elder neglect can be caused by anyone from caretakers at nursing home facilities to family members. Neglect is simply failing to meet the needs of an individual, which may result in poor hygiene, poor nourishment, missing medications or leaving an elderly person alone...
Assisted living facilities provide long-term senior care assistance. They may be set up like apartments where individuals live in their own homes with call buttons for assistance from nurses, or they may have individual rooms in a larger assisted living facility....
When you think of elder abuse, you may not think it's something that could happen to you or someone you love, but the reality is that elder abuse truly is everyone's problem. Everyone gets older, everyone needs help at one time or another and everyone has times when...
Elderly people in Florida nursing homes often have to take various medications. In an ideal world, the home provides regular doctor's visits, up-to-date medical records and attentive staff members who always deliver the correct medication on time and make sure...
If you're looking into nursing homes and trying to find the right one for your loved one, you may wonder how the nursing home chooses its staff members. If someone retires or quits, how does that person get replaced? Can you trust that the company does all it can to...
