The Washington Post had a recent article about how falls in the elderly lead to death caused by brain injuries. This is why it is so critical for nursing homes to have sufficient staff to supervise resdients, prevent falls, and have a fall prevention program. Below are excerpts of the article. The elderly fear breaking
NY Times had an article about the overuse of certain medications in elderly residents. Below are excerpts of the article. Ramona Lamascola thought she was losing her 88-year-old mother to dementia. Instead, she was losing her to overmedication. Last fall her mother, Theresa Lamascola, of the Bronx, suffering from anxiety and confusion, was put on
Below are excerpts of an interesting article about “Green Houses”. A new approach to taking care of the elderly. The article is called: “Rising challenger takes on elder-care system” (06/24/08 Wall Street Journal) By Lucette Lagnado In the spring of 2001, Bill Thomas, dressed in his usual sweat shirt and Birkenstock sandals, entered the buttoned-down
The Joint Commission today announced the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for accredited long term care organizations. The National Patient Safety Goals promote specific improvements in patient safety by providing health care organizations with proven solutions to persistent patient safety problems. These Goals apply to the more than 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and
In Dallas, Texas a local television station has been running background checks on licensed nurses. They have found “thousands of nurses with arrest records.” That much didn’t surprise me – but the arrests include murder, kidnapping and arson. What? Murder? My immediate thought was, don’t employers do background checks? My second thought was, are these
Rome News Tribune has a story about a male resident found dead in the nursing home’s utility closet. Typically, these closets are locked and only certain staff members have access. No one knows how the resident got into the closet or how he died. The man had been missing from a Georgia nursing home for two weeks