The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) asked older adults how the COVID pandemic affected their perceptions of nursing homes, and one thing is clear: Now is the time to redesign nursing home care.
The phenomenon of residents’ fear of staff retaliation when voicing care concern and making mistreatment complaints in nursing homes has been shown in research to be common. Despite longstanding co...
Hartford Foundation in New York City, Alice Bonner is senior advisor for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, and Shreya Chandra and Tim Le are graduate interns at...
Nature of Elder Mistreatment ; With some diseases or conditions, attribution of cause can be fairly simple and straightforward; a salmonella outbreak serves as an example. Other conditions have very complex causation, and indeed the condition itself may be difficult to define and identify. Elder mistreatment clearly fits the latter pattern. The complexity of elder mistreatment can be highlighted by reference to the concept of a “geriatric syndrome”—that is, common clinical problems that typically do not have a single underlying pathophysi ...
Despite state reviews that find staff neglect and mistreatment caused patient deaths, Florida nursing homes escape penalties and investigations.
Janet Caldwell was looking forward to visiting her mother again as she did before the pandemic, with no dirty window or awkward outdoor booth between them. Her 87-year-old mom's nursing home in Arkansas had announced in mid-March it would allow family members to visit residents indoors — something it had not permitted for an entire year in the coronavirus pandemic. But a few days later, the nursing home called Caldwell back to say the visits were off. There was a COVID-19 outbreak among the staff, even though weeks before the workers at the f ...
Elder abuse in nursing homes happens far more frequently than many believe. Find out top U.S. nursing home abuse statistics.
In a landmark settlement, a Maine assisted living facility... that nursing homes and other assisted living facilities must... experiencing mistreatment and will help people understand that...
residents in nursing homes. The 2017 law is intended to protect against discrimination or mistreatment based on residents’ sexual orientation or gender identity. The Third District Court...
Health care professionals · Mental health professionals · Caregivers (whether paid or unpaid) · Home care providers · Employees of nonresidential programs for the elderly · Employees of sheltered workshops and similar nonresidential programs · Employees of residential facilities for the elderly · Social workers · Long-term care ombudsman program staff and volunteers · Employees of adult protective services programs · Employees of area agencies on aging and other aging service providers ...