Bedsores are often known as pressure ulcers. This is because the pressure itself restricts blood flow, especially in the patient’s skin. When this pressure is prolonged and blood flow is significantly reduced, the surrounding tissues can suffer harm and even begin to...
Cognitive decline, including what occurs when a person has dementia, can be challenging to live with. For some, the consequences of the condition become so severe that they need more care than what they can get at home. Those individuals may move into a memory care...
Housekeeping is crucial in nursing homes. A facility should have enough staff to clean bedding, furniture, floors and other resident areas regularly in order to better ensure that residents are healthy. However, not all nursing homes do this. The following are three...
Long-term care facilities, nursing homes and hospice centers take care of some of the most vulnerable residents. These individuals go through many changes as they progress through the end stages of life. One of the challenges that is typically associated with...
If your family has a loved one in a care facility, helping to ensure their well-being is probably a constant concern. This concern can be particularly pressing your loved one has pre-existing conditions like diabetes and some new symptom or issue has arisen. People...
A healthy and balanced diet is always important, but this is especially the case for elderly individuals in nursing homes. Elderly individuals can be more susceptible to health conditions that stem from malnourishment. Not only that, but malnutrition in itself is...
Bedsores are painful pressure ulcers that can develop when someone is immobile. If they don’t change positions often enough, the consistent pressure on one area of their skin can affect blood flow and capillaries. In some cases, bedsores can even get infected and have...
Many cases of elder abuse or neglect stem from understaffing. Some nursing homes have an unbalanced ratio of staff members to residents, yet they keep admitting more. Here is what to know about this matter: Causes of understaffing Some causes of understaffing in...
In what is believed to be a first in legal history, attorney Kathryn Stebner of our firm, , has won class-action status for residents of a senior living facility that allegedly failed to care for them adequately. The U.S. 9th Circuit of...
People thinking about mistreatment and abuse at nursing homes often focus on overly severe scenarios instead of the banal circumstances that negatively affect countless older adults. Yes, actual intentional abuse does occur in some facilities and may involve physical...
