Rapidly accelerating rates of dementia worldwide will result in a 10% increase in the number of dementia sufferers in the 2005 to 2010 time frame, according to a new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International. The acceleration of cases will lead…

A bipartisan group of senators succeeded Tuesday in passing S. Res 276, officially recognizing the first day of fall as, what else: National Falls Prevention Awareness day. Investing in falls prevention programs could save billions of dollars in treatment costs,…

The Lynchburg News & Advance reported today that a Lynchburg woman will serve almost three years in prison on charges that she stole the identities of several elderly people she cared for at two Lynchburg-area assisted-living facilities. Karen Priscilla Jones, 48,…

In celebration of National Assisted Living Week 2009, one assisted living facility conducted a ceremony to bury a time capsule filled with treasured items and thoughts of today’s residents. The mayor of the town issued a proclamation titled “Traditions of…

A report that just became public says conditions at a large city Veterans Affairs nursing home were potentially dangerous to patients. The VA says it has corrected the problems since the report came out, a year ago. The report was…

Last November, an elderly man was living in the Alzheimer’s wing at an out-of-state and state-run nursing home when another patient beat him unconscious with a cane. He died a week later. Despite the beating, the coroner ruled that the…