Nursing Home Patients Survive Tube Cuts
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Someone slipped into the rooms of six patients at a nursing home and cut the feeding tubes keeping them alive, police said Thursday.
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Ensuring that nursing home  staff get their flu shots may help prevent potentially deadly  outbreaks among elderly residents, a new study suggests.
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As part of a national initiative to improve the quality at long-term care facilities, Neshaminy Manor Nursing Home was credited Wednesday with making significant improvements in two areas of patient care.
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Fewer US nursing home residents suffer from chronic pain and fewer physical restraints are being used, the Department of Health and Human Services announced.
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NEW YORK  - Black residents of nursing  homes are more likely to develop bedsores, or "pressure  ulcers," than whites are, according to the results of a study  published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  Differences in the characteristics of the nursing homes do not  appear to explain the increased risk for bedsores.
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People with dementia survive an average four-and-a-half years after diagnosis, researchers said on Friday in a study they hope might help care-givers plan for patients with Alzheimer's and other, similar illnesses.
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Pumping a little iron can help elderly nursing home residents and heart failure patients gain strength for everyday life, the American Heart Association says, expanding on earlier advice.
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com. Hospitals and nursing home facilities are battling over Medicareâs $5.4 billion funding for overnight rehabilitation care. The new ruleâs proponents say approximately
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Twenty years after Congress vowed to improve the way we care for the old and the infirm, nursing homes still inspire dread. But some mavericks are working to deinstitutionalize them and make them more like home.
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WASHINGTON Dec 22, 2004 - About 35,000 fewer nursing home residents are kept in restraints on a daily basis down 23 percent from two years ago according to a federal report released Wednesday that also found fewer patients in pain.
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Heart attack patients in the United States are more likely to survive longer than those in Canada, in part because American doctors are more aggressive in reopening clogged arteries.
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MONDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Nursing home residents treated intermittently with drugs for common ailments such as depression, arthritis or sinus problems over a three-month period were almost 90 percent more likely to die at the end of that period than were patients who didn't take such drugs, new research shows.
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By MICHELLE ROBERTS  NEW ORLEANS - Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials they failed to evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Unlike terminally ill patients who die in hospitals, attached to tubes and monitors, Marie Madison wants to die in the comfort of her home.
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Elderly and ill blacks in the United States are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes, researchers said on Tuesday in a study that shows clear patterns of segregation persist.
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-- More than 800 of them have lost an arm, a leg, fingers or toes. More than 100 are blind. Dozens need tubes and machines to keep them alive. Hundreds are disfigured by burns, and thousands have brain injuries and mangled minds.
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By MARK BOWES  Diane Proctor feared something terrible had happened to her 83- year-old mother when she pulled into the Hunt Club Apartments yesterday and saw police and fire crews. "I come over here everyday because my mom is blind and doesn't walk very well," Proctor said.