Authorities in one state ha made a move to close a nursing home because of abusive conditions. The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) revoked the license of the nursing home ordered it to relocate its 107 residents by Aug….

Studies have indicated that the percentage of nursing home patients using restraints restraints is on the decline. The percentage fell to 5% in 2007, down more than half from 1999, according to a recent report from the Agency for Healthcare…

In one state, a state trade association is rolling out new, voluntary standards for members providing home-care services to the elderly. The  Boston Nonprofit Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts, a dues-based association, says the new program will help family members…

Nursing homes give dementia patients antibiotics to treat pneumonia on a regular basis, but a new study reveals that this widespread practice may be causing as much harm as good. It found that using pneumonia fighting antibiotics can prolong patients’…

When one woman learned in 2007 that her 93-year-old mother had died at the nursing home where she lived, she assumed that she had died of natural causes. But the details of the death of her mother are far from…

U.S. Marshals have arrested a nursing home worker accused of sexually assaulting a patient at the facility where he worked. The man, 49, has been charged with rape in connection with the alleged incident. Police said the man was working…