Dementia is one of the most feared outcomes of aging. New research shows that eating fish is linked to preventing dementia while eating beef is linked to increasing the likelihood of developing dementia.
Please click for The New York Times full article.
The North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation has closed the Floyd McKissick Senior Assisted Living Center in Norlina, which received zero stars under the state’s adult care licensure rating system. In the entire state, only two other facilities, Sunshine Family Care Homes in Eden and the WNC Family Care Home in Leicester, also received zero stars. The HensonFuerst team of nursing home abuse lawyers suggests you think of it this way: A zero-stars rating is akin to a restaurant with an “F” sanitation rating. Many people refuse to eat in restaurants with even a “B” rating; would you drop your loved ones off at a dining establishment that boasts an “F” sanitation rating?
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According to Catherine Goldman, senior practitioner with Wake County Human Services, the home needs sharp regulatory eyes trained on it to protect residents.
“These folks are at risk,” Goldman said Wednesday. Consequently, the home has a no-star rating due to problems like a smoking-related building fire, high rates of medication mistakes, electrical hazards and food described for the record as “nasty,” according to state and county records.
Click to read Tommy Goldsmith’s article in today’s News & Observer.
Senior partner and founder of the HensonFuerst Nursing Home Litigation Division, Thomas W. Henson, Sr., was featured on a July 8 blog entry hosted by Harry Newton, in which Tom stressed the importance of regular colonoscopies for men and women. As a six year survivor of colorectal cancer, Tom knows first-hand the importance or regular testing and early detection. Residents of long term care facilities, as well as their care takers should be reminded of the importance of colonoscopies and the risks in failure to have regular exams.
For a number of years, attorneys for patients have observed what appears to be a disturbing pattern of jury verdicts in favor of physicians who have committed clear malpractice and seriously injured patients. We attorneys who represent patients whose lives have been damaged or even ended because of poor medical care, have been saddened by this trend which appears to stem from a successful media attack on malpractice lawsuits by the insurance industry and for profit corporations running medical institutions. Recent studies show that between 44,000 and 88,000 citizens die each year because of medical errors in US hospitals alone. Yet, fewer malpractice suits have been filed, and fewer won, even where the physician’s liability is obvious — so that patients and their families are often left disabled, unemployed, and penniless through no fault of their own as a result of medical errors. See attached article documenting this trend and its tragic impact on public health.
Long-term care policies are offered as a way to pay for a nursing home, assisted living, home health care and other costs associated with growing older. This link will take HensonFuerst blog viewers to an informative New York Times article, which is part of an ongoing Times series, on long-term care options.
Click to read Walecia Konrad’s article in the June 26 New York Times.
A Florida woman, Natasha Petit-Homme, has been charged with stealing $2,300 from an elderly patient under her care. The victim was a resident of Woodlake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Palm Beach, Florida where Petit-Homme was employed as an admissions clerk. The HensonFuerst nursing home abuse lawyers remind family members who oversee the care of persons in nursing homes and long term care facilities to make inquiries as to employee backgrounds and criminal histories.
Click to read the entire story from WPTV-TV.