A caregiver was sentenced to 20 years fore horrific elder abuse. Fortunately, a home security system captured the abuse on video. The victim’s family had installed the cameras to monitor their loved one. The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office accused Shelia Knight of “forcefully” pushing an 86-year-old resident causing her to break her hip. Prosecutors
Another horrible incident of abuse and neglect at a nursing home. Inez Windom showed 13WHAM photos of the injuries her mother suffered from an assault at The Shore Winds, a nursing home in Charlotte. A nursing home caregiver allegedly threw a resident to the ground and tried to rape her. She suffered defensive wounds including
Let us be clear: We are cracking down on enforcement of our nation’s poorest-performing nursing homes. We are demanding better, because our seniors deserve better. –HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Special Focus Facility CMS will revise the Special Focus Facility Program to help residents of chronically low-performing nursing homes. Facilities in the program are to be
Evan Porter wrote an interesting article showing a new way to operate an assisted living facility. A nursing home built that breaks most norms. Most nursing homes today typically have residents in confined areas with regimented medication schedules. Similar to a prison. Instead, this particular nursing home design uses different forms of therapy. The architecture
WMBF reported the desperate need for a nursing home for American veterans. South Carolina only has four nursing homes. The Department of Veteran Affairs operates them with the most recent one built in Florence County just last year. It is not enough. not by a long shot. Nearly 400,000 veterans live in the Palmetto State.
Financial Exploitation According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Elder abuse is an intentional act or failure to act that causes or creates a risk of harm to an older adult. An older adult is someone age 60 or older. The abuse often occurs at the hands of a caregiver or a person
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