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Transcript: Recently, a potential client asked me why a nursing home did not perform CPR on their loved one. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is not always in the protocol for a nursing home resident. Whether CPR will be administered depends on the wishes of the resident or the resident’s ...

Transcript: People often ask me why nursing home care is so bad. What I can tell you is that, in my experience both as an attorney and as a certified nursing assistant (CNA), poor nursing home care is ultimately the fault of the owners and operators the facility. Working inside a nursing home is...

Transcript: When people ask me why nursing home abuse occurs. The answer to that question is very similar to why nursing home neglect occurs. What the public needs to understand is that the job of the nurses and staff in nursing homes, who are charged with the care of residents, is extremely dif...

Transcript: In your typical nursing home, there will be several different types of staff tasked with various duties. At the very basic level, the nursing home will have a certified nursing assistant, or CNA. These individuals help the residents on a daily basis accomplish tasks that an able bodi...

Transcript: Generally, the resident’s day starts around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. This is the time when the CNAs, or certified nursing assistants, begin getting the residents out of bed. Many residents will need assistance ambulating, and getting in and out of bed, and many more will need help w...

With a rise in nursing home abuse and neglect complaints, many family members are turning to technology to ensure their loved ones are being cared appropriately. Sometimes, the findings are not what they expected. In some cases, the findings are horrifying. Jean Peters and her sister have become pr...

Social media has made our lives easier- making it easier to keep in touch with our loved ones and keep people filled in on our day-to-day lives. However, with technology comes a dark side where that technology is abused. The social media application Snapchat has been used to humiliate some of the na...

Nursing homes are expected to maintain certain conditions by state and national agencies. Even if these facilities take no federal or state funds and are privately funded, they are still expected to conform to a certain quality of care. In the case of homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding...

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are two conditions that affect the elderly. Many of those with this condition are in care facilities. Despite being in supposedly secure facilities, patients with this condition have a tendency to wander. According to the Alzheimer's Association, 6 out of 10 patie...

Nursing home facilities require nurses to fill roles on their staff. These nurses are expected to adhere to licensure guidelines and practices. Sadly, this does not always occur. In Massachusetts, state regulators are currently investigating instances where nurses falsified patient records and then...