As a quick update, I wanted to guide you to an article I wrote for Health Leaders recounting my day spent at the Cleveland Clinic meeting with their patient experience team. It might help you understand how health care is evolving and what you should start looking for when evaluating...
Tag: nursing home abuse
Elder Abuse – Families Often Responsible
We often think of abuse of our elders in terms of physical abuse and often associate that with nursing homes. But abuse can also be verbal, financial exploitation. And most abuse comes from family caregivers themselves. The latest study in the British Medical Journal reports that more than half of...
Elder Abuse Support
It’s said that it has to come to this. We have blogged before about the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in MN and the abuse suffered by residents at the hands of seemingly wholesome teenagers. Now the 15 families of the alleged abuse victims have formed an official support group...
Teens and Elder Abuse is Bad News
You would think that young people who work in nursing facilities would have a deep appreciation for older folks and want to give them their utmost respect. Right? Well consider that six, rather wholesome young women are accused of groping and taunting seven residents at the Good Samaritan nursing home...
Families Are Not Visitors But Advocates for Care
A Wall Street Journal article explores the notion that families are in the best position to be advocates for their loved ones health but can not be looked upon as mere visitors in the hospital but as Beverly Johnson, president of the nonprofit Institute for Family-Centered Care, puts it “allies...