State officials have arrested a couple on charges that they operated an assisted living facility without a license and neglected the facility’s residents, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. The couple was taken into custody by officers of the…

According to the Director of the Martha Stewart Center for Living, by the year 2030, 20% of the Nation’s population will be over 65 — making for more than 70 million older Americans. She also says that every year, a…

ABC news reports on the troubling story of one nursing home. Investigators have discovered that when residents at the nursing home complained or annoyed the facilities Director, she chemically restrained them with powerful anti-psychotic drugs. She was so heavily drugging…

An assisted living community has been charged $700 in fines resulting from two cases involving missing narcotics and  cash stolen from residents. The facility is under investigation regarding the possible theft of both the cash and the drugs. On June…

A hospital has sued a nursing home it says transferred a brain-damaged patient and refused to take the patient back after treatment. The State Department of Inspections and Appeals is now looking into the allegation that nursing home broke state…

Congress is considering the most extensive nursing home reforms in more than 20 years as part of health care reform. The Senate voted November 21 to proceed with debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which includes extensive…