Sentences with phrase «in elderly nursing home residents»

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.

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

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TALLAHASSEE — Three months after 13 elderly residents in a South Florida nursing home died because of sweltering conditions following Hurricane Irma, lawsuits and legislative inaction are holding up efforts aimed at preventing such deaths in the future.

Other AI systems will misinterpret sensor data, and send robots toppling onto human co-workers in factories or elderly residents in nursing homes.

The recommendation by Bloomberg, under advice from aides to himself on Cuomo, that thousands of elderly, disabled and mentally ill residents remain in more than 40 nursing homes and adult homes in flood - prone areas of New York City had calamitous consequences.

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.

Having pets in nursing homes (be it therapy animals, visiting furry companions or resident pets) can provide its elderly residents a sense of joy and relief.

One of the major causes of depression in the elderly — and also in nursing home residents — is loneliness.

Over the years, pet therapy has become more and more popular, especially in nursing homes where the elderly residents can interact with them.

The abuse of nursing home residents is a pervasive problem in the U.S. Thousands of elderly Americans are abused each year in nursing homes and other facilities responsible for their care.

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.

As for financial abuse, this can occur without any warning signs whatsoever, which is why family members with elderly loved ones in a nursing home should stay vigilant for suspicious financial activity such as abrupt and unusual checks, additional names on the resident's bank account / card, unexplained withdrawals and loss of personal items.

As many Oceanside residents with elderly loved ones know, nursing homes in Southern California and throughout the country have been cited for improper discharges of patients, amounting largely to evictions or the «dumping» of patients.

CNN recently reported about a dark trend occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the country: sexual abuse of elderly residents, who are often helpless to defend themselves against unwanted advances.

Nursing Home Abuse a Problem for 1 in 5 Long - Term Residents, Study Shows Families struggle to find the best option for elderly loved ones.

The Law Firm of Ford, Dean & Rotundo, P.A. in Aventura, Florida continues to fight vigorously to protect elderly, infirm, at risk nursing home and assisted living facility residents from abuse, neglect and sexual attacks.

Although federal law prohibits «chemical restraint» — using medications to strongly sedate patients with mental disorders or dementia who may engage in disruptive behaviors — recent reports show that several skilled nursing facilities in the United States overuse dangerous antipsychotic medications on their elderly residents, which is a form of nursing home abuse.

Neglect in nursing homes can occur in various ways and can have a huge impact on the well - being of an elderly resident.

A new study on malnutrition in the elderly found that between 35 % and 85 % of nursing home residents suffer from malnutrition.

Though nursing homes in Illinois are designed to be safe places for elderly and ill residents to live, they present significant dangers to their residents as countless incidents of nursing home abuse and neglect happen in them every year.

Proposal 88 allowed the residents of nursing homes and ALFS to restore their rights to a trial by jury included in an elderly «bill of rights.»

Providing a range of support services to disabled and elderly patients in residence at Rivers Nursing Home in Cleveland, working to improve, enrich, and respect the lives of residents facing the challenges of aging and declining medical conditions.

You are a geriatric psychiatrist providing consultation and care to elderly residents living in several nursing homes.

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

For this end, the researchers conduct a survey for 182 elderly residents in 7 charity nursing homes in Seoul and Kyonggi Province.

First, nursing home staffs need to establish a system in consideration both of relational aggression and of resident's adaption, to reduce its elderly residents» consequential depression.