Police received a call that a woman working at a nursing home was putting lotion on a patient’s hand to slip her rings off her finger. An investigation revealed the nursing home worker stole jewelry from multiple patients. She would then pawn them at local pawn shops.

Ten new bills are being brought to state representatives to increase nursing home care standards. The bills involve increased fines, additional staff training, and more rights for residents of assisted living homes. The bills are a response to nursing home problems reported in the state last year.

A nursing home study in Spain is being validated in nursing home findings in the United States. Nursing home patients that experience constipation are not receiving adequate care to treat the issue. Nursing home patients volunteered to have examinations for the study on chronic constipation.

A nursing home case has made headlines in the political realm as a group of political activists allegedly attempted to take photos of a running mate’s wife in an election race. The wife of a man running for U.S. Senate resides in a nursing home and the activists wanted to take her picture and use it as an anti-campaign for the opposing party.

Nursing homes are encouraged to be more aware with breathing tubes in their patients. Tubes can easily be moved or knocked by patient’s or staff. Unfortunately there are times where incidents with feeding tubes are intentional when caregivers are abusive and clog the breathing tube.

An 82-year-old nursing home patient has wandered away from a nursing home. She suffers from Alzheimer’s and heart conditions. She went missing at 5:30am.