States Consider Allowing Cameras in Nursing Homes
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Several states are considering the use of video surveillance in nursing homes, to keep an eye on residents and the care they receive.
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As swing states with large elderly populations  such as Florida gear up for another presidential election, a sleeper issue has been gaining attention on medical, legal and political radar screens:  Many people with advanced dementia appear to be voting in elections -- including through absentee ballot.
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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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The families of elderly dementia victims are being given peace of mind by a satellite tracking system. Sufferers in a trial project have been given a special
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By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 20--When she's not popping them in her aged VCR for yet another  viewing, Ruth Ann Rieland keeps all the treasured home videos of her children  and grandchildren, along with her photo albums, in a closet by the front door.
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years, and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according
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Giving care home staff flu jabs can cut the number of illnesses and deaths among resident.
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Hurricane Charley exposed glaring weaknesses in the emergency plans that were supposed to protect hundreds of Charlotte County&#39;s most vulnerable residents, the people living in nursing homes.
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A Victorian aged care home has been sanctioned after claims by staff that it covered up a gastroenteritis outbreak and endangered the health of 54 patients.
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Giving care home staff flu jabs can cut the number of illnesses and deaths among residents.
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A wearable digital camera may hold the key to helping people who have memory problems, experts believe.
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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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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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Cottage industries, start your webcams.
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NEW YORK  - Residents of small nursing homes appear better satisfied and report a better quality of life than do residents of traditional large nursing homes, research suggests.
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When families and friends get  together for the holidays this year, many more of them will use  a digital camera to record those memories.
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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.