A nursing home has settled the claim of the family members of a 90 year old nun who was crushed and killed by a falling cabinet in the facility.  After the incident, the nursing home lead the family to believe that a newly installed floor-to-ceiling cabinet had toppled onto the nun, killing her and that the occurrence was the first-of-its-kind at the facility. However, investigative reports revealed that two other residents had been severely injured from cabinets falling on them at the faci…

State officials have blamed two nursing home employees for the death of a resident who dropped during transfer. A report by the State Health Department said the employees who were moving the resident with a mechanical lift from a bed to a wheelchair failed to ensure that the sling was properly attached to the lift. The resident fell to the floor and suffered numerous fractures and a collapsed lung.

The son of a nursing home resident has sued the facility after his mother’s 2010 death. According to police, the  84-year-old dementia patient wandered into a 58-year-old male resident’s room. Staff heard the female resident shouting and went in to find her on the floor with severe injuries.

A nursing home in one state has opened it’s doors to give tired caregivers rest from dementia sufferers who do not sleep through the nights. The program is kind of a “night camp” for dementia victims who don’t sleep at night or tend to wake up agitated or become frightened or disoriented by darkness. It is intended for patient’s who do need 24-hour nursing home care, but often cannot sleep at night.

Police in one state are asking the public’s to help locate a 59-year-old man who has been missing from a nursing home for more than a week. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a nursing home on Tuesday, October 2, where staff reported that  a 59-year-old male resident has been missing since Wednesday, September 26. The resident was last seen at a dialysis center where he received scheduled treatment.

A 37-year-old assisted living facility employee has been arrested on allegations of theft of nearly $9,000 from the residents. The woman was employed as house manager at a facility that provides assisted living for men with developmental disabilities. According to police, the employee accessed a safe at the home and took ATM cards belonging to the residents.