A state fined a nursing home $75,000 in the case of an elderly man whose death was reported for months as a heart attack – although he really choked on a tuna sandwich. State documents show that the nursing home…

A nursing home employee watched three straight episodes of “Dog The Bounty Hunter” and “shrugged off ” an alarm that indicated an 89-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease had wandered outside into near-zero conditions early one morning, prosecutors said. The woman’s…

Police have arrested a former health care worker in connection with the 2007 homicide of a cerebral palsy patient, a case that almost ended with no investigation into the victim’s unexpected death and his burial just days later in a…

A police dog led its handler to a happy ending after a resident of an assisted living facility went missing from her room. Administrators of the assisted living center called police to help search for an 88-year-old woman with demetia….

Several nursing homes and senior assisted living facilities are using the Nintendo Wii video game system in their physical and occupational therapy programs. The idea is to provide a fun way to encourage patients at the nursing home to get…

A former nursing home employee has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for raping a resident. The employee had been convicted of first-degree rape in the August 2007 attack on the woman who lived at the home. The 33-year-old…