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Sep
Nursing Home Falls and Hip Fractures
Residents of nursing homes are vulnerable to falls. Age, physical limitations, and underlying health conditions can all increase the risk factors. One unfortunate outcome of a fall is a hip fracture. These injuries can lead to serious complications, such as chronic pain, reduced...
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Sep
How Can I Check on My Loved One in a Nursing Home?
Making the decision that a nursing home is the best place for your loved one is never easy. When you choose a facility to care for, support, protect, and create a warm home environment for an older adult you care about, you trust that things will go well even when you can't...
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The Prevalent Issue of Overmedication in Nursing Homes
Residents in nursing homes often receive medication because they have health issues. It's important that residents only receive the medication they’re prescribed and need for their existing physical and mental illnesses.However, residents in long-term care facilities...
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Sep
Who Is Liable for Your Loved One’s Nursing Home Injuries?
Choosing a nursing home for your elderly loved one can be a hard process and take a lot of time and consideration. No matter how much research and investigating you do on different facilities to determine if they're right for your family member, they still might experience...
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Sep
Is Your Loved One Exhibiting Signs of Nursing Home Abuse?
When you and your loved one decide that a nursing home is the best course of action for continuing their care into their later years, you likely will do plenty of research to make sure that it's the right facility for their needs. Unfortunately, no matter how much investiga...
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Sep
What Are the Most Common Nursing Home Complaints?
Nursing homes can be exceptional places for your elderly loved ones to receive around the clock care or get the assistance to live their lives as best as possible in their old age. No matter how much research you did about the facility and no matter how much you visit your loved...
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Sep
COVID-19 Legal Immunities Shield Nursing Homes From Accountability
Given the congregate nature of nursing homes and the fact that many residents have underlying medical conditions that result in compromised immune systems, long-term care facility populations are at a high risk of being affected by viruses like COVID-19. This is why strong infect...
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Sep
For-Profit Nursing Homes Struggling to Care for COVID-19 Patients
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country, nursing homes are among the hardest hit. Even the most prepared facilities have struggled to mitigate the spread once the virus is inside. According to the New York Times, for-profit nursing homes seem to be stru...
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Sep
How to Protect Your Loved One from Neglect in a Nursing Home
When we place the care of our elderly loved ones into the hands of a nursing home, we have to trust that the facility will care for them in ways we cannot. Unfortunately, many nursing home residents do not receive the care they need or are owed. As a result, many seniors end up w...
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Sep
Pressure Ulcer Healing and Prevention Tips
Everyone has heard of the term “bedsore”. Medical care experts refer to bedsores and decubitus ulcers as pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcer prevention and treatment continue to be huge issues in hospitals and nursing homes. Many people are aware of the...
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