One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Are Treated with Antipsychotics, not Antidementia Drugs, New Study Shows

One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Are Treated with Antipsychotics, not Antidementia Drugs, New Study Shows

Antipsychotics Treat One in Five American Nursing Home Residents with Dementia, not Anti-dementia Drugs, New Study Shows Despite the announcement of a federal crackdown on inappropriate antipsychotics use in nursing homes, more than 20 percent of nursing home...
Former Pennsylvania Nursing Home Aide Sentenced for Stealing Jewelry from Dementia Patients

Former Pennsylvania Nursing Home Aide Sentenced for Stealing Jewelry from Dementia Patients

Former Pennsylvania Nursing Home Aide Sentenced for Stealing Jewelry from Dementia Patients  In a shocking incident of nursing home malpractice, a former nursing aide of a Pennsylvania nursing home has been sentenced to time in jail for stealing jewelry from dementia...
Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient

Indiana Nursing Home Worker Charged with Attempted Rape of Dementia Patient The employee at Indiana’s RiverOaks Health Campus barricaded the door to the room where he had led his elderly victim and was discovered in a state of undress, say investigators of the...
Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent

Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent

Tennessee Nursing Home Resident with Dementia Dies after drinking Laundry Detergent: The wrongful death lawsuit brought against Prosperity Pointe, an assisted living and memory care facility in Knox County, claims negligence amounting to nursing home malpractice...
Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Virginia Nursing Home Employee Charged with Battering Resident with Dementia

Battering a Resident with Dementia Charged to Virginia Nursing Home Employee Camera footage reveals a nursing home worker grabbing an elderly resident’s wrists, engaging in verbal abuse, and otherwise committing nursing home malpractice at Brickyard Healthcare in...