Nursing homes face dilemma
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The first victims of Hurricane Katrina never felt the raging winds, never saw the floodwaters. They were two elderly nursing-home residents who died on a school bus that took three hours to load and five hours to travel from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
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At two Capitol Hill hearings yesterday, legislators highlighted the need for greater transparency in nursing-home operations and called for a government probe into the quality of care given at facilities owned by private-equity firms.
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By Chris MetinkoSTAFF  As the country's senior population grows by the day, local services and agencies are dealing with an influx of calls from those now caring for seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Bush administration to disclose the identity of more troubled nursing homes, saying earlier efforts to alert consumers did not go far enough.
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The Bush administration plans to expand a two-year-old initiative to improve nursing home quality that has so far had mixed results, officials announced yesterday.
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Moving into a long-term care facility can be very difficult for patients with dementia, and new research shows that their caregivers may also suffer during the transition.
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A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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The D.C. Department of Health failed to offer a home care option to frail or elderly residents receiving Medicaid, an option that could have saved $34 million in nursing home costs, according to a critical audit released yesterday.
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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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NEW YORK  - Nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease who participate in a moderate exercise program have a significantly slower deterioration than those who receive routine medical care, researchers have shown.
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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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While the traditional view of  elder abuse in nursing homes involves staff harming residents,  new research suggests residents may have more to fear from  their peers.
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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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A plan for downsizing the hospital and nursing home industries could eliminate thousands of jobs, and change the way millions of people receive health care.
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For the caregivers of patients, life is an act of stoic devotion that most families embrace as the antithesis of a nursing home.
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NEW YORK  - Ensuring that nursing home staff get their flu shots may help prevent potentially deadly outbreaks among elderly residents, a new study suggests.