A woman was arrested this weekend on suspicion of elder abuse after leaving a 101-year-old man in a hot car in front of a business, police said. Police were called just after 3 p.m. from someone concerned about the elderly man sitting in a vehicle in front of Walmart.

According the the United States Attorney’s office, a former nursing home operator has been convicted of fraud.  The man, 57, was sentenced last week by a Senior United States District Judge to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by two years probation, for embezzling more than $800,000 from a nursing home that is in bankruptcy proceedings. Court proceedings revealed that the man, as the owner and operator of a 90-bed nursing home, embezzled $817,212 from the bankruptcy estate’s accounts. He…

The oldest man in the United States died this week at age 111. The nursing and rehabilitation center where he passed away told The Associated Press last Sunday that he had died. Dr.

A 52-year-old woman faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly trying to set the nursing home she lived in on fire. The former nursing home resident was indicted recently by a grand jury on charges of aggravated arson, residential arson, and criminal damage to property in connection with the July 3 incident. The indictment states that the woman knew or should have known others were in the facility when she set fire to the building.

A woman charged in June with abuse of a nursing home resident patient appeared this week in court. The woman, 50, faces felony counts of abuse of a patient and aggravated battery. According to a report to police by another nursing home employee, the woman, a certified nursing assistant, had been abusing an 86-year-old resident, over a period of six months.

The State Bureau of Investigation has arrested five former certified nursing assistants at a nursing home over allegations of mistreatment of dependent adults. According to a news release, the five people were indicted by a grand jury earlier this month. On Monday and Tuesday the individuals were arrested.