Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

Five nursing home workers who participated in a November 2009 prank involving elderly dementia patients in a Ukiah, Calif., nursing home have been sentenced.

Accused of enacting a prank where they coated 7 elderly dementia patients from head to foot in a slippery ointment so they would be slippery when the staff for the next shift arrived, all 5 had their nursing assistant licenses revoked and are ineligible to work in nursing homes again. More

In a move to help families looking for nursing homes, the federal government has updated Medicare’s “Nursing Home Compare” website.

The “new” website revises the old one. Twenty-one new criteria, which help measure the quality of care at nursing homes across the country, are added. The new website allows the government to assess resident experiences in both long-term and short-term care facilities. More

It is a horrifying fact that more than 31 percent of nursing home residents suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, according to a 2000 study by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform.

This means that the possibility of your loved one suffering from malnutrition and dehydration while in a nursing home rivals that of people struggling to survive in the Third World. More