Nurses fear 'elder abuse errors'
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Fear of misinterpreting a case of elder abuse may stop some nurses from reporting it, a survey suggests.
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Making rounds at a Mount Laurel nursing home, Dr. Brian Little often hears confused, elderly patients complain about feeling like prisoners and wanting to go home.
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A former nurse told investigators in a recorded interview last year that depression drove him to kill as many as 40 patients over a 16-year period.
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Treatment errors often leave patients and families feeling guilty and afraid.
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A third of nurses working alone in the community have been assaulted or harassed in the last two years, a survey has found.
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A wide range of experts on long-term care express serious concern that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most of the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes.
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More than 700,000 elderly people are subjected to abuse in their own homes or privately run nursing homes, according to the results of a new study to be published this week.
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Nursing home worker John Riems had a temper and spent long periods in patients' rooms with the doors closed, neighbors and former co-workers say, troubling observations that have suddenly taken on a sickening weight.
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An NHS trust chief says the Welsh health service is failing to solve problems after a nurse highlights concerns.
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Blood transfusion chiefs worry people could be put off donating by reports of blood being destroyed.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Health Organization says one in 10 hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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Many experts are concerned that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most Americans who live in nursing homes.
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Experts fear chaos will ensue for nursing home residents under new rules because many of them aren&#39;t capable of choosing from the myriad of plans.
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A night-shift nurse accused of sexually abusing at least two dozen elderly or disabled patients at a nursing home was in jail Wednesday, authorities said.
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A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.
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Abuse and neglect was so rampant at a South Side nursing home, two former employees dubbed it &quot;the house of death, terror and filth,&quot; a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Monday alleged.