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Poor Security at Assisted Living Facilities is the Other Care Center Epidemic Prior to the early part of 2020, assisted living facilities fairly regularly made headlines across the United States because of cases involving the abuse and neglect of clients. Beginning in March 2020, a shift occurred with innumerable reports of a huge number of assisted living facility residents being diagnosed with COVID-19. Both before and after the start of 2020, there has been something of a quiet epidemic at…

As our family and loved ones get older, it may be necessary for them to receive a level of care few people are able to provide on their own in this day and age. In most instances that care can be found in a good nursing home, at a recommend assisted living facility or with a highly-regarded caregiver. It is important, in issues related to your loved ones, to take certain precautions to help ensure the facility at which your…

If you and your elderly loved one decided that residence in a nursing home would be best to meet the needs of your elder, then you likely expected that the care demonstrated to them would be nothing short of top-notch. Unfortunately, for some residents of nursing care facilities, some members of the staff have taken to illegal – even abusive – behaviors that are far from the care and attention you may have had in mind when you enrolled them…

Senators Charles Grassley, D-Iowa, and Herbert Kohl, D-Wisconsin, have voiced concerns that nursing homes are over-prescribing antipsychotic drugs to control the behavior of senior patients, reports say. The Antipsychotic drugs, such as Clozaril, Abilify, and Seroquel – which are approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – have been used to treat dementia, not psychoses. The senators reportedly stated. The senators believe the government needs to do a better job of protecting nursing home residents from unnecessary drugs. They further…