Sentences with phrase «elderly nursing home residents»

Sadly, thousands of elderly nursing home residents face the risk of abuse or neglect by the very facilities charged with their care.

Lack of mobility in elderly nursing home residents can lead to a condition known as «contractures.»

The fact that vaccines typically don't work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail patients such as elderly nursing home residents.

Elderly adults, however, are at a higher risk of falling short of nutritional requirements, and the National Institutes of Health estimates that up to 50 percent of elderly nursing home residents do not get enough protein.

Research finds that after an emergency evacuation, the death rate for elderly nursing home residents more than doubles.

Yet malnutrition and dehydration are serious medical conditions inflicting far too many elderly nursing home residents and can lead to serious or fatal health complications.

For example, The New York Times detailed several cases last year in which families of elderly nursing home residents who were murdered by their roommates were initially blocked from suing the nursing homes for inadequate supervision (and other shortcomings) due to arbitration agreements.

Approximately 1,800 elderly nursing home residents die from these falls.

Participants: A sample of 354 cognitively able elderly nursing home residents in Lebanon was selected for the study.

Little is known about how Belief in a just world modulates these coping abilities in elderly nursing home residents or their levels of depression either.

Unfortunately, elderly nursing home residents and hospital patients are typically the ones who develop these sores.