When you place your elderly loved one in a nursing home, you expect he or she will be cared for properly. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Nursing homes may cut corners and provide substandard care to residents. Staff members may also intentionally harm residents. Our Raleigh Nursi...
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at the University of Illinois Chicago, the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA), the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group are collaborating to examine comparative rates of Covid-19-related deaths among older adults who reside in nursing homes vs....
Nursing home care in crisis in the wake of COVID-19. JAMA. Published online May 20, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8524ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar 6. Abbasi J. “Abandoned” nursing homes continue to face critical supply and staff shortages as COVID-19 toll has mounted. JAMA. ...
If you've been looking for a real sign that the COVID-19 pandemic that has been gripping the world in its deadly fist is finally starting to ease - here it is! Late last week, Louisiana health officials relaxed the rules on visiting nursing homes!
- The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for allegedly refusing to release data related to COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes, in a release Tuesday. Mackinac Center sues state of Michigan for nursing home death data The ...
A spokeswoman for the Health Care Council of Illinois said many nursing homes have struggled financially since the pandemic. “Changes of ownership are sometimes the mechanism of last resort to allow operators who can no longer survive in this difficult operating environment to ensure continuity of ...
In 2019, after carving off the facility's real estate holdings, the operations at Berkley East were taken over by a for-profit company called Aspen Skilled Healthcare, a mid-sized chain of more than two dozen nursing homes. Previously, the facility had been family-run and was operating at...
Nursing home residents in Sweden are old, frail and usually have multiple morbidities which often make dying a prolonged suffering. It has been found that older persons at nursing homes receive far less palliative care than younger persons, partly becaus
We found that 58.1% of the older individuals in nursing homes and 36.6% of those in the community were hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and that there was a statistically significant difference (P < 0.001). Multiple logistic regression results indicated that the main factors influen...