Sentences with phrase «of elderly nursing home residents»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A new study of the records of millions of nursing home residents affirms the value of influenza vaccination among the elderly.

With no plans of altering his habits, Vincent simply drags Oliver to all his usual hangouts: the racetrack, a bar and a nursing home where he delivers clean laundry to an elderly female resident.

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.

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

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.

While many cases of elderly financial abuse occur outside of nursing homes, nursing home residents are not immune.

Nursing home residents are generally elderly with rapidly failing health and often also have dementia or other forms of mental disability or disease.

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 is often characterized as mistreatment of a vulnerable, elderly resident at the hands of caregivers and other staffers.

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.

(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person is an owner, operator, or employee of a group home, nursing facility, assisted living facility, intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, or other institutional care facility and the person intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence by omission causes to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual who is a resident of that group home or facility:

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.

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.

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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.