Officials are investigating how an 82-year-old nursing home resident died last weekend at Heartland Healthcare. According to police, the elderly man was found on the floor by nursing assistant at 10:30 p.m.with an oxygen tube and electrical cord wrapped around his neck and tied to an assistance lever suspended over his bed. The county coroner stated that it was unclear whether the cord was placed on the man’s neck intentionally or whether it could have been accidental.

The family of an woman who developed bedsores while in the hospital have claimed that employees at the facility attempted to conceal their neglect by deliberately mischaracterizing her bedsores as a skin rash, according to a lawsuit filed last month. The woman’s daughter alleges that the medical center recklessly allowed her mother to develop bedsores by letting her lie in her own bodily waste for prolonged periods. The 64-year-old woman did not suffer from any bedsores or skin breakdown at the …

Administrators at one nursing home have fired a certified nursing assistant (CNA) following reports that she injured an 88-year-old patient. According to police records, the CNA is facing a charge of injury to the elderly, disabled reckless bodily injury. Other staff members of the facility told police that the CNA was trying to change the clothes of a male patient who resisted.

The daughter  of a care home resident says staff neglected her sick mother by not giving her sufficient food or drink in the days before her death. Her mother died at age 75 of kidney failure five days after being admitted to the hospital emergency room. The facility has admitted to ‘shortfalls in the standard of care’ received by the resident, including her not being fed properly, and not thoroughly investigating her death.

A man who wandered away from an assisted living center on Sunday, June 5th was found dead the next day in a small pasture. Police noted that it is unclear how the 62-year-old resident died. Monday morning the police had issued a Silver Alert for the missing resident, indicating that he had a cognitive impairment and required medication.

Scientists in Australia have developed the material for creating a bandage that would change colors to indicate that a wound is becoming infected. Its developers say it could lead to speedier and more effective treatments for chronic wounds such as leg ulcers and bedsores. “The bandage works by changing colour according to temperature.