The Nurse Licensure Compact sounds like a good idea…in theory. In order to help get nurses to high-need areas, 24 states have banded together, agreeing that nurses who gain a license to practice in a Compact state are automatically allowed to practice in other participating states, without having to go through additional licensing procedures. In […]
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Message received: Getting older doesn’t mean giving up on health. An article in today’s News & Observer reports that more senior living communities and facilities are offering state-of-the-art fitness machines to keep up with the demand by residents. Previously ignored, senior fitness is now a burgeoning business. “Change came slow; however, now it is happening
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The elderly are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects from prescription drugs. Click to learn more.
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An arbitration panel awarded over 2 million dollars on behalf of an elderly woman residing in a Mariner nursing home in Tennessee. The plaintiff successfully contended that the legal entities were each other’s alter egos. The elderly woman developed pressure sores and languished in her own wastes for lengthy periods of time because there was
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A recent article in the New York Times highlights the vulnerable and lonely feeling experienced by many nursing home residents who do not want to be in a facility, but have no choice. Such a plight serves to remind all of us being that alone and completely vulnerable to your caregivers is bad enough, but
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The link between poor care and understaffing at nursing homes has long been established – study after study, including one by the Institute of Medicine, show that insufficient numbers of nurse aides and qualified nurses lead to bad outcomes, yet our nursing homes remain critically understaffed – and patients suffer needless injury and death as
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Now is the time that you can do something to protect one of the most vulnerable populations – our elderly residents of nursing homes. There is legislation pending in Washington entitled the “Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act” which is designed to keep the elderly from being subjected to one-sided, industry driven arbitration contracts after
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I have often wondered how long it would take for people to realize what life in a nursing home looks like from a patient’s perspective. For those who think that nursing homes who put profit over patient care shouldn’t be punished, I wonder if they would be willing to do what these brave medical students
A recent study by a New York state senator’s office found that more than 30,000 incidents of elder abuse and neglect occurred in the year 2008. This finding echoes what those of us who practice nursing home law have known for years – that our beloved elderly remain at an extremely high risk for abuse.
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I am a diabetic. I am also a lawyer who focuses on nursing home abuse and neglect cases, and in that context I have seen and brought to light through litigation numerous instances of diabetes in the elderly being mismanaged in a nursing home setting. Diabetes is a complicated condition, and requires multifaceted approaches and
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