Political leaders are under fire from many different sides for their bungling of the Coronavirus epidemic. New York made at least two critical mistakes in the past year, both of which were horrible in different ways. The first terrible decision was to send COVID-19...
At some point, the Coronavirus epidemic will end, and we will have time to contemplate how and why so many senior citizens in skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes contracted the disease and died. No doubt, the fact that people died is telling, in and of...
The United States Senate’s Special Committee on Aging singled out for attention one particular nursing home executive in a letter dated January 27 addressed to Genesis Healthcare. This chain owns more than 300 facilities across the US. Genesis nursing home residents...
With so many people having to be isolated this past year due to Coronavirus, it’s safe to say that the number of fraud schemes targeting the elderly has skyrocketed. And if you think it’s a small number of scam artists operating out of an Internet café in Africa or...
It is safe to say that any skilled nursing facility or nursing home that follows proper infectious disease protocols should be able to limit the spread and outbreak of any given pathogen that comes along. Nursing homes are required to pass stringent licensing...
A week ago, the Attorney General for New York, Letitia James, issued a report on COVID-19 in nursing homes, which stated that nursing home and hospital data underreported nursing home resident deaths by at least 50%. According to the AG’s report, actual deaths from...
Tens of thousands of people have already died from COVID-19 as a result of negligence at nursing homes. According to the New York Times, as of February 1, more than 148,000 residents and employees of 30,000 nursing homes have died, and more than 1.2 million have been...
Philip Esformes spent the last four years in prison until President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in December 2020. A year earlier, the already incarcerated 52-year-old businessman was found guilty of 20 additional counts of bribery, money laundering, and...
A common occurrence at many skilled nursing facilities is when an elderly resident suddenly becomes agitated. Perhaps she recently lost a close friend or relative; maybe she received some other bad news. Whatever the cause, the ever-efficient nursing staff will note...
In our two previous posts on the subject of dementia and memory loss, we highlighted the many environmental and external factors that may cause someone to display signs of severe mental impairment. Qualified medical experts can sometimes find the source(s) of the...