The NYT has another good article up today:
Serious Deficiencies in Nursing Homes Are Often Missed, Report Says
WASHINGTON — Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, Congressional investigators say in a new report.
In the report, to be issued on Thursday, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, […]

Over at Long Term Living (used to be Nursing Homes Magazine) they’re asking for ideas and solutions to the ever present big time issue: STAFFING PROBLEMS. Go over and leave your thoughts and opinion. I did.

Up in Canada an investigation is under way. A nursing home resident died as a result of a fall, out of a mechanical lift.

The faulty lift equipment that caused the death of an east Toronto nursing home resident had already malfunctioned twice within the same long-term care chain, according to a health ministry document […]

Nursing homes can expect some new guildlines coming this fall with regards to MRSA and infection control.
While many studies have looked at MRSA in hospitals, “we found no studies that looked at ways of preventing the spread of MRSA in nursing homes for older people,” the reviewers said.
That’s despite nursing home conditions that are ripe […]

The New York Times has an article up about whether aggressive medical care is appropriate for elderly people.

HANOVER, N.H. — Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages […]

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