A resident at the Renaissance at Hillside nursing home in Hillside, Illinois fell from her window, 14 feet off the ground, into the bushes outside. She was taken to a local hospital and was diagnosed with a wrist fracture. The resident was a known risk for wandering and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. According to […]
American Geriatrics Society Updates Nursing Home Fall Prevention Guidelines
The American Geriatrics Society along with the British Geriatrics Society has updated their guidelines for preventing nursing home falls. It’s the first time the guidelines have been updated since 2001. The guidelines are determined by an extensive literature search that includes reviews, randomized trials, controlled studies and other publications produced between 2001 and 2008. As […]
An Apple A Day: Fiber Rich Fruit Effective in Protecting The Teeth of Nursing Home Residents
A study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society linked eating high fiber foods, especially fruit, to the improvement of a chronic oral condition known as periodontitis. According to the study, men over 65 can greatly benefit from a diet high in fiber. A chronic disease is a disease without any cure. The symptoms […]
Antibiotic-Resistant E. Coli Strain Increasingly Found In Nursing Homes
A strain of E. coli (Escherichia coli), a deadly bacteria, has been proliferating among our most vulnerable – nursing home residents. A study published in the April 2013 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology examined hundreds of samples of E. coli collected during a two month period in 2011. The antibiotic-resistant strain was identified […]
Alden Princeton Fails To Stem Bed Sore Growth
The Alden Princeton Rehab and Health Care Center nursing home in Chicago was fined by the Illinois Department of Public Health for failing to respond adequately to existing bed sores, also known as pressure sores and decubitus ulcers. Nursing homes have clearly defined obligations with regard to bed sores in a nursing home environment: no […]
Alton Rehab Fined For Nursing Center Neglect And Bed Sores
Alton Rehab and Nursing Center in Alton, Illinois, was fined $25,000 by the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services for nursing center neglect. According to the report, the Alton Rehab and Nursing Center failed to properly assess, identify, and treat residents in their care who suffer from bed sores. Despite their innocuous sounding name, […]
Alzheimer’s Action Day – Wear Purple On September 21 To Show Support For Alzheimer’s Patients
Friday, September 21, has been designated Alzheimer’s Action Day. Wear purple to show support for the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, the Alzheimer’s association is sponsoring two ebay auctions to raise money for the cause. As a Chicago nursing home lawyer, I have spent countless hours with nursing home residents suffering from all stages […]
Alzheimer’s Man Beaten To Death In Nursing Home In Oak Park, IL
Blunt head trauma and Craniocerebral injury are fairly insipid terms for what happened at the Oak Park Health Care nursing home in Oak Park, Illinois, but that’s what police investigators are calling it. Crainiocerebral injuries are injuries to the head where the brain is also injured. It’s typically found in car accident victims. I think […]
$327 Million In Damages Against Johnson & Johnson In Risperdal Ruling
A few months ago on this blog, I wrote about a report by the Department of Health and Human Services that indicated that elderly patients with dementia were being repeatedly prescribed antipsychotic drugs because of the calming effect the drug induces in the elderly. The prescriptions are being written “off label”. Off label means […]
A Dangerous Trend Of Nursing Home Resident Violence
When people hear about violence in a nursing home, the image they form in their minds is usually one where the staff of a nursing home assaults one of the residents of the home. That is the most common kind of nursing home abuse. There’s growing evidence indicating that another kind of nursing home abuse […]