Nursing home staff strained, survey says
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TORONTO -- Nursing home workers say they&#39;re often overwhelmed or injured on the job and feel frustrated that they&#39;re unable to deliver the level of care elderly residents need, a new survey says.
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Patient care has suffered, say unions as Guardian analysis shows extent of underspend.
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NEW YORK  - 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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Like a majority of Americans, nurse Peggy Branan feels her job is satisfying and that she is paid fairly. Many workers express concern about job stress, retirement benefits and health care, according to an Associated Press poll, but Branan is not one of them.
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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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Fear of misinterpreting a case of elder abuse may stop some nurses from reporting it, a survey suggests.
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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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More than one fifth of elderly people feel they are living in poverty and 28% say their lives have got worse, a survey says.
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Caregivers who place a relative with dementia in a long-term care facility experience significant anxiety and depression afterward, and their use of tranquilizers to relieve anxiety increases, a new study finds.
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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Washington&#39;s nursing homes reduced their residents&#39; pain and used fewer physical restraints over the last two years. But the percentage of residents suffering from bedsores increased slightly.
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ROCKVILLE, Ind. -- Two staff members at a nursing home abused demented residents, encouraging one to expose her breasts and another to hit himself in his genitals, a state agency said.
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Callers to the U.S. government&#39;s  hotline for the Medicare health program for senior citizens are  increasingly frustrated by the service, according to a poll  released on Thursday.
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Eighty percent of U.S. doctors and  half of nurses surveyed said they had seen colleagues make  mistakes, but only 10 percent ever spoke up, according to a  study released on Wednesday.
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Prioritizing flu shots for those most in need is proving difficult as inventories of hospitals, nursing homes and individual physicians are surveyed in the Washington region.
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- The quality of care received by vulnerable elderly Medicare, Medicaid patients is barely acceptable, a team of U.S. researchers report.
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A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.