ELF News Archives
August 2007
- Prevent elder abuse -
It’s a surprising statistic, but in the United States one out of every 20 people can expect to be a victim of elder abuse – to be either physically or psychologically harmed, or be exploited in some way. Often those perpetrating the abuse are in the role of caregiver, either a family member or a caretaker at a home health or long-term care facility.
Spooner Advocate 08/31
- Nurses "would not report OAP abuse" -
A charity claims it is a "national disgrace" that many nurses say they will not report the fact an elderly person in their care has been abused.
Nursing Practice 08/31
- China's One-child Policy Could Backfire On Its Elderly -
China's efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county's senior citizens in the future..."Everything is fine right now. Today's older Chinese had no restrictions so they had five or six children. They have plenty of caregivers. But these caregivers were limited to having a single child. What happens in 30 years when they turn 80? Their support will fall entirely on that only child. And, what if that child marries? Now you're talking about caring for four older adults.
Science Daily 08/30
- NMC: Half of nurses reluctant to report elderly abuse in care. -
...more than half of nurses are reluctant to report the abuse of an elderly person in their care for fear of misinterpreting the abuse, confrontation with the abuser or upsetting the victim.
Politics UK 08/30
- Long-term care will be hot issue for ‘boomers’ -
For 77 million baby boomers rapidly approaching retirement, long-term elder care is no longer an academic concept - it’s becoming a reality. Many of us already deal with eldercare issues for our parents...the vast majority of Americans greatly underestimate - or simply don’t realize - how expensive long-term care is ...
Daniel Island News 08/30
- Plan for nursing homes needed now -
Reforming Medicaid and a commitment to families who need extended care should be sufficient motivation to not delay.
Zwire 08/30
- Jerry Knecht: A big step for senior housing -
FIVE YEARS AGO, I wrote a Marin Voice seeking donated property upon which we could construct a group home for low-income seniors in the Ross Valley...I take great pleasure in announcing that the construction of Tam House II is complete and we are taking applications for residence.
Marin Independent 08/28
- Finding the Red Flags for Elder Abuse -
Imagine catching the abuse of someone you love on a surveillance tape. It happened to a Baltimore woman who says she never imagined her father was being abused by an in-home caregiver. But could this same thing be happening to someone you know??
ABC News 08/28
- Web site offers care-center information -
The state unveiled a new Web site Monday that allows residents to read inspection reports and other care data on Arizona child-care centers, assisted-living facilities and nursing homes.
Arizona Republic 08/28
- Nursing home experiment coming to area -
Local officials consider the area's first Avalon by Otterbein a nursing home, but the development is supposed to look and function more like upscale residential neighborhoods sprouting up around it..."No one wants to move into a traditional nursing home," ...
Irish Medical News 08/27
- Elder Care Bill Pay From Premier Payment Services Pays Bills, Manages Money for Seniors -
Premier Payment Services, a comprehensive bill pay services provider, announced today the debut of Elder Care Bill Pay offering bill payment and daily money management services for seniors and their families. Services include mail management, bill payment, vendor dispute resolution, medical bill and payment organization as well as management of long-term care documents and expense records. "They(Seniors) face complicated long-term care insurance, confusing medical bills and other statements that are difficult to understand. Elder Care Bill Pay helps ensure bills are paid accurately and on time."
TMCNet 08/27
- HIQA urges feedback on proposed uniform standards for nursing homes -
Doctors have given a broad welcome to proposed standardised quality standards for nursing homes across Ireland, which have recently been published for consultation by the Health Information and Quality Authority.
Irish Medical News 08/24
- Elder care industry in flux -
For years, Pennsylvania's elderly had two choices when it came to residential care: personal care homes and nursing homes. That all changed late last month when Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill creating assisted living, capping a 10-year effort to establish a level of licensing midway between the basic assistance of personal care homes and the sophisticated medical attention of nursing homes.
BizJournals 08/24
- Endangered elder care -
Program needs better state reimbursement, providers warn
Express Times 08/24
- Societies must learn to live alongside nursing homes -
They may offer a lifeline to the patient but for residents of the building, they are a nuisance. Nursing homes have long been an anathema to housing societies for a host of reasons.
Mumbai 08/24
- Workers get caregiving help -
Ann Brewster had been caring for her aged parents for years before she realized the demands were eroding her health. Shuttling them to doctors' appointments, rushing home from work to take them dinner, coping with her mother's disorientation -- all were taking a toll...Companies have long seen the elder-care burden as a productivity problem; the focus has been on helping workers find services for their family members, and then getting the employees back to work.
Star-Telegram 08/22
- Elderly trapped when in own homes -
Due to infirmity and mobility issues, senior citizens can experience isolation due to being unable to leave the house, a survey commissioned by Help the Aged shows.
Craeg Moor 08/22
- Seniors head south to Mexican nursing homes -
For $1,300 a month — a quarter of what an average nursing home costs in Oregon — Douglas gets a studio apartment, three meals a day, laundry and cleaning service, and 24-hour care from an attentive staff, many of whom speak English. She wakes up every morning next to a glimmering mountain lake, and the average annual high temperature is a toasty 79 degrees.
USA Today 08/20
- Elder abuse a disturbing reality -
Elder abuse is a disturbing reality in today’s society. The risk of being abused, neglected or exploited is real for many older people. Family members or other caregivers most often are the abusers. The problem crosses geographic, socioeconomic, racial and ethnic barriers.
KC Chronicle 08/20
- State works to ease bedsore problem -
...a pressure ulcer, is a serious medical problem, especially for the elderly. It can destroy flesh and infect bone. Nationally, an estimated 60,000 people die each year from complications from sores, and $1.3 billion is spent annually to treat the wounds.
Times Union 08/20
- Closings hit home -
Experts predict more and more nursing homes will close, largely due to state and federal cuts in Medicaid coverage.
News-Herald 08/20
- Politicians blasted over deficient care for the elderly -
Norway's so-called "cradle-to-grave" social security system seems to be disappearing, despite the country's vast oil wealth. Complaints over health care and overcrowded schools have long been an issue, and now alarming statistics are emerging over deficient care for the elderly
Aften Posten 08/15
- An age-old problem -
Despite what she and others consider to be a growing and pressing need for planning care, Frazier says many people put it off because of “ignorance, apathy and denial.” People are “not knowledgeable about long-term care, where it is provided and how much it costs
Business Report 08/15
- Grant provides $1.9 million to improve nursing home care -
Poor-quality nursing home care and resulting poor resident outcomes are
of increasing concern, particularly for elders...Despite the availability of evidence-based practice protocols that could dramatically improve care and outcomes, the use of these protocols in nursing homes is sparse
Press Citizen 08/14
- Kohl promotes screening elder care workers -
A program that would allow elderly care providers to screen potential employees for serious crimes or related problems should go nationwide...Kohl’s proposal would allocate almost $100 million to establish a national registry that nursing homes and assisted living facilities can check to see if potential employees have been convicted of certain crimes,such as fraud and assault, or professionally disciplined in other states.
Lacrosse Tribune 08/14
- Morgan Stanley buys a place in assisted homes -
The biggest frustration Sunrise apparently has in the US is they have a huge number of landlords or property ownership partners to deal with so they wanted to sign with a single partner for their UK business going forward, according to Morgan Stanley. Assisted living is seen as different to nursing home investments because they tend to be new developments, rather than old residential properties held by nursing homes, and offer independent living for individuals but accompanied by personalised care where needed.
IPE Real Estate 08/14
- Where should grandma live? -
Families weigh what is best, safest for their aging loved ones...Joyce Felice of Mason was worried about her mother. Living alone in a small home in Paris, Tenn. — more than 600 miles away — with cardiac and vascular issues, Dorothy Norell Norton was vulnerable.
LSJ 08/13
- Tips on finding proper housing and medical care -
When a friend or relative starts getting older it is important to make sure they are taken care of.
LSJ 08/13
- Nursing homes may fail on eye, ear, teeth care -
Anyone who has had a loved one in a nursing home well knows the anxiety and worry about whether the facility is a good fit for the illness and other needs of the patient...families also need to make sure nursing homes don't forget health-care basics for the eyes, the ears and the mouth.
Herald Democrat 08/13
- Shortage of caregivers means shortage of care -
A ratio of one personal support worker to 10 residents is laughably inadequate. Unfortunately, caregivers who are overworked, burnt-out and resentful are more likely to provide substandard, uncaring service.
The Star 08/10
- Repay families for laundry fees, nursing homes told -
For almost a decade, some private long-term care facilities have been charging patients for laundry services.
The problem? It's supposed to be free, and the families of patients claimed the practice was unjust.
Canada 08/10
- State budget stalemate impacts KMC and local nursing homes -
The state budget stalemate is taking a toll on the care of some of Kern County's most vulnerable people. The spending plan is 38 days late, and that's delaying Medi-Cal payments to nursing homes and Kern Medical Center.
Eyeout For You 08/09
- New Senior Housing Developed by Aging Services Provider Ecumen in North Branch, MN, Shows How Communities Can Ready for the Age Wave -
The Villages of North Branch, a $22 million development, replaces a 1950s-style county-operated nursing home and departs from the traditional nursing home model. Institutional hallways are replaced by small neighborhoods and it features technology to help seniors live as independently as possible. The Villages of North Branch is senior housing that is designed to be an integral part of the larger community, with its café, chapel and meeting rooms open for use by community groups.
PR Web 08/09
- How To Select The Best Available Nursing Home -
If you want anything close to good care for a relative, you and others will have to put in a great deal of time at the home monitoring what goes on, advocating for the resident relative and lending a hand when necessary to get something done. And you'll also have to spend time investigating and selecting a nursing home.
The Bulletin 08/09
- Nursing homes that need EMS -
Senior care still in troubled state
Had Dianne Lynch not been stuck in business meetings all day, she would never have missed the hysterical call one morning a few weeks ago from her ailing mother, bedridden and alone in her nursing-home room...The frantic 73-year-old woman, only a few years ago a formidable mother, had been lying in a soiled, sodden diaper for hours, trapped in her bed by raised bars, with the nurses and support workers tending to dozens of other seniors on her nursing-home floor.
The Globe and Mail 08/08
- How To Choose A Quality Elder Care Service Agency -
When searching for an elder care service agency to take care of your loved one, there are several questions you should ask to make certain you are hiring a high quality elder care agency.
Pr-GB 08/08
- HIQA publishes draft quality standards for nursing homes -
The Government's Health Information and Quality Authority has published new draft quality standards for nursing and residential care homes for the elderly.
Independent 08/08
- Ontario's shift to private nursing homes -
Now, of the 621 government-funded nursing homes in Ontario, 353 facilities – 57 per cent – are owned by for-profit companies.
The Globe and Mail 08/08
- Korian H1 sales rise 6.5 pct, led by growth at nursing homes -
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Private healthcare operator Korian said sales rose 6.5 pct or 16.6 mln eur to 271.3 mln eur in the first half from a year earlier, lifted by a 7.4 pct growth in the division which runs nursing homes for elderly people.”
ABC Money 08/08
- Navajo: We need nursing homes now -
For families that live on the reservation, putting an elder in an off-reservation nursing home, said Joe Engelkin, Tuba City Indian Medical Center’s CEO, “means that families are going to be traveling a lot; they have to basically re-route their lives.”
Gallup Independent 08/06
- As I See It: Many families are overlooking adult day health care as a viable option -
When you look at the concept of adult day health care, one would think that obviously it is a needed service. After all, how many people are struggling to care for aging parents, spouses or disabled adult children?
Kansas City Star 08/06
- Planning for Long-Term Elder Care -
The expense of long-term health care is a growing concern for America's current seniors, and the coming wave of baby boomers. In 2000 there were 35 million people age 65 or older in the United States, accounting for almost 13% of the total population, ..... By 2011 vast numbers of boomers will hit senior status, and it's estimated that 20% of the population will be 65 or older.
Ladown Town News 08/06
- Elder care industry in flux -
For years, Pennsylvania's elderly had two choices when it came to residential care: personal care homes and nursing homes.
BizJournal 08/06
- Local nursing homes under fire from HSE -
MANY of the county’s 19 nursing homes have earned stiff rebukes from Health Service Executive (HSE) inspectors in the past year, with only one achieving praise for being “in substantial compliance” with the regulations.
Meath Chronicle 08/02
- Getting old an expensive prospect -
And lack of affordable housing makes it a whole lot worse...The long life expectancy brought about by modern medicine, as well as the high cost of achieving it, nearly guarantees that growing old will be an expensive prospect. A lack of affordable housing aggravates the situation, with 57 percent of renters over 62 paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Such a high proportion of an elder's income spent on housing limits her access to medical care and prevention, nutritional health, transportation, entertainment activities and her sense of financial security.
Seattle PI 08/02
- From embryo to the elderly—a consistent ethic is needed -
Many in the pro-life movement become uneasy when political candidates, responding to questions about their position on abortion, start talking about the need for a “consistent life ethic.”..While many pro-life advocates are active in protecting life at its earliest stages, few are aware of the assaults that are perpetrated on the sanctity of life in long-term care institutions in America.
Florida Baptist Witness 08/02