False diagnoses are used to mask inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs on patients with dementia, a practice called ...

Nursing home abuse is a serious issue in this country, one that affects our most vulnerable elderly residents, including here in Lexington, Kentucky. As families, we entrust nursing homes with the ...

Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect. More than 1 ...

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A Henrico nursing home has landed on a government watch list of facilities having a record of serious health and safety ...

Employees at North Aurora Care Center were worried about admitting V.R. The 28-year-old man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, hypersexual tendencies and cognitive delay. So, when a local hospital ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a three-part series examining how and why New York’s nursing homes too often fail to keep their residents safe. New York’s nursing homes have received ...

TOMBALL, Texas -- A daughter suspecting foul play at her mother's nursing home set up hidden cameras, which led to the arrest of one of her caretakers. Tracy Thompson was heard verbally abusing the 93 ...

Sponsored by Republican state Sen. Adam Schnelting of St. Charles, the legislation would increase penalties for abuse or ...