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Transcript: The term “elopement” means that a nursing home resident has managed to wander outside without the nursing home staff being aware. To senior residents with Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, or other health issues, grave injuries may result. Sometimes even death. Despite evolving safety meas...

Transcript: Elopement means the unsupervised walking of a resident in which the resident actually leaves the nursing home. As you can imagine, elopement can result in catastrophic injury or death. Sadly, the reported number of elopement cases continues to rise. Residents with certain mental and...

Transcript: In nursing homes, the term “elopement” means the unsupervised wandering of a resident resulting in the resident exiting the facility. Obviously, elopement can lead to serious injury and death. Unfortunately, the number of these cases is on the rise. In fact, between 2006 and 2009, elope...

Transcript: Despite improved safety features and growing awareness, cords from window coverings, like blinds and curtains, fatally strangle dozens each year. In fact, one study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission showed 185 deaths and 101 near deaths, from window blind cord strangulation, bet...

Transcript: Cords from window blinds, drapes, and curtains are a hidden hazard in nursing homes across the country, particularly in memory units. Data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission indicates that, despite improved safety features, window coverings strangle dozens each year. In fact, b...

Transcript: Window blind cords are a hidden danger in nursing homes across the country. Statistics from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent agency of the Federal Government assigned with promoting consumer safety, show that almost 160 deaths from window blind strangulation occurr...

One would think that if a sex-offender needed to be placed into the care of a nursing home that they would be isolated and that the families of other patients would be notified. Not so, according to the Iowa Supreme court in a case involving an 88-year-old habitual sex offender. As USA Today reports...

The crime against the elderly that is growing the fastest is financial abuse. Last year, 33 states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico considered measures against the financial abuse of a senior citizen.  As the New York Times reports, several states are considering stiffer penalties...

Transcript: Bedsores are a very common injury. In fact, nearly ten percent of nursing home residents have a bedsore at any given time. But is the nursing home responsible for your loved one’s bedsore? Possibly. It will depend on what the nursing home did prior to the injury. The Centers for...

Transcript: Bedsores, also known as pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers, is a lesion caused by unrelieved, consistent pressure that results in damage to the underlying tissue. Essentially, the bedsore occurs if pressure to a particular point of the body has impaired circulation to the underlyin...