Hip Injury Recovery for Nursing Home Residents

Sometimes when a resident of a nursing home suffers from a fall, the resident can break or injure his or her hip. Such injuries often require surgery and a long recovery, but residents can usually return to the nursing home...

Wandering is a common occurrence among nursing home residents. “Wandering” is a term used to describe an elderly person’s frequent movement that appears aimless, or appears as repetitive locomotion. Wanderers typically...

Malnutrition and dehydration affect between 35-85 percent of elderly Americans in nursing home facilities each year, despite being two of the easiest conditions to prevent. When nursing home facilities do not take proper...

Malnutrition is a common form of nursing home negligence and abuse, and it can lead to more serious health problems, such as confusion, muscle weakness, accidental falls, infections, digestive disorders, and the breakdown of...

A majority of the cases of bedsores occur in nursing homes and long term care situations.  Bedsores are an indication of nursing home abuse or neglect and should be reported as such immediately. The following conditions can...

The staff at a nursing home or long-term care facility has a duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of each resident that lives at the facility. When a resident falls, it is a likely sign of abuse at the nursing home....

When nursing home residents get hurt as a result of inadequate wandering and elopement prevention safeguards, it may be a sign of nursing home abuse or neglect, or even inadequate staffing.  Luckily, with advances in...

If you have recently visited your elderly loved one in a nursing home facility, and have noticed that he or she looks a little thinner, consider whether there might be an issue with the amount of nutrition your loved one is...

There are many precautionary measures that can be taken by nursing home staff to protect residents from accidental falls.  Each individual resident should undergo a personalized determination of what precautionary measures...

Weight loss, malnutrition and dehydration together form one of the most troubling epidemics sweeping the country’s nursing homes. Many nursing homes do not provide residents with a wide selection of food choices at mealtime....