The award process involves in-depth feedback from residents, patients, and their families through monthly telephone interviews, with open-ended questions and ratings across multiple categories.
Thirty-two residents of an aging long-term care home in New Glasgow, N.S., were evacuated earlier this week after a water main break in the basement of the facility caused significant flooding ...
More than 3,500 members of the local Service Employees International Union live in affected zones, local union president David Green said, including dozens whose homes were destroyed, mainly in ...
Each state has Adult Protective Services (APS) agencies. APS operates with state governments to keep elders safe. Every state also has a long-term care ombudsman program. Ombudsmen are volunteers who ...
Sex among residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities is still a taboo subject. Yet it happens. A lot! About 40% of people between ages 65 and 80 are sexually active, according to a ...
If people bring in food grade cannabis products for their own (or a relative's) use, the service must do its own risk assessment. Supply of medicines for end of life care NHS England advises that care ...
Thousands of Britain’s most voiceless and vulnerable are living in failing care homes, new figures reveal. Days after the decade-long crisis was finally acknowledged with plans for an ...