Last Friday's powerful East Coast wind storm caused a three-day power outage at an assisted living facility, stranding the residents. The three-floor facility at has 44 residents with dementia and other memory problems. For more, read the story.
A new sock invented as a fall-management system drastically reduced patient falls during an eight-month test in a small acute care hospital, according to the inventing company's press release.The “PUP” (or Patient is Up) smart sock is made of “woven fabric that enables real-time monitoring of patients to disourage falls and enhance therapy and rehabilitation.” During the study, the control group which did not wear the sock had about a dozen falls, while those using…
An elderly nursing home patient had to bang on a radiator in the bathroom for help after nursing home staff left him on the toilet and forgot about him for hours. For more, read the story.
The pastor of People's A.M.E. Zion Church in Syracuse, New York, took his concerns about a local nursing home to Facebook Live. “It is freezing cold,” a resident said. “It's a shame when you all got people walking around with coats and gloves including the employees,” the resident said. “It was quite frigid in her room.
A family released a video showing physical and mental abuse of their elderly father by his nursing home's staff. The man and his family filed a lawsuit against the facility, and are now making public their hidden camera footage, including an employee making anti-Arab comments and using ethnic slurs.The man's son said he put a hidden camera disguised as an alarm clock in his father’s room after he noticed unexplained bruises and cuts on his father’s body.“I discover…
A nursing home advocate has taken issue with a recent investigation of a nursing home by Oklahoma's state health department, alleging serious flaws in their report. “This is insane. This is unacceptable,” said Wes Bledsoe, CEO of 'A Perfect Cause.' “These are human beings. They are suffering human rights violations.
