A wheelchair-bound diabetic man claims the assisted living center where he had lived for 1 1/2 years recently kicked him out and dumped him on L.A.’s Skid Row at a homeless shelter.“It’s sole crushing. What are you gonna do? You can’t get help.

Three nursing home caregivers pled guilty to “ill-treating or willfully neglecting a person without capacity” and each was sentenced to a 12-month community orders.  The family of an elderly patient with Alzheimer's secretly filmed her neglect. The video showed the three female employees leaning over the patient laughing and mimicking her groans as she was in bed.

State inspectors spent three days investigating a nursing home after allegations including a rape of a patient by another patient, another patient who wandered away from the facility and was later located hundreds of miles away in a different state, and other problems which were previously investigated but not resolved.“Senior residents live in fear and are being threatened by young mental health patients/residents who currently reside at the facility,” an email obtained by a local news agency s…

A woman whose husband died in a nursing home from neglect is pushing her state legislature to approve cameras in rooms as a protective measure. Back in 2010, as she walked up to her husband's nursing home room door, she could tell something was not right. “I could smell the stench of feces coming through the door,” she said.  When she opened the door, her husband was slumped in his wheelchair, unconscious and the room was very hot.

A lawsuit was filed against the corporate owner and operator of multiple assisted living facilities. It alleges that its patients are being put at risk of injury by the company's systemic failure to adequately staff its facilities. Four different law firms filed the lawsuit and will attempt to have it certified as a class action. “Selecting an assisted living facility is extremely stressful, and people are not in a position to discover the risk of harm they may face,” an att…

When her daughter approached the door at the senior living community, she found multiple packages and two newspapers outside the door. Her mother, 92, was dead and had been for two days.  Her assisted living facility had neglected to check on the woman for two days, according to the state health department.