We Need Better Nursing Home Staffing Levels ÛÒ You Can Help (Video)
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We Need Better Nursing Home Staffing Levels – You Can Help
We Need Better Nursing Home Staffing Levels – You Can Help The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care recently launched a campaign to advocate for better nursing home staffing levels. Their contention, which I agree, is that higher staffing levels result in higher quality of care and can be...
Post Traumatic Stress Caused by Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
The following is a guest post by Farid Yaghoubtil of Downtown LA Law Group According to the most recent data more than one million of our elderly experience some form of elder abuse, ranging from acts of violence, neglect, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and fraud. However there has been little...
Fifth of Nursing Aides Charged with Abuse Had Priors
According to the Office of the Inspector general, almost a fifth of nursing aides charged with abuse and neglect had prior convictions. Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions. Overall, the 300 nurse...