People of any age have the right to appropriate assessment and management of pain.  They go hand in hand.  A provider has a duty to assess pain appropriately and within the standard of care. Pain should be assessed in all individuals living in nursing homes.  Caregivers have a duty to use different techniques, depending on the […]

MetroWest Daily News : Jury awards $2M to Marlborough woman A jury on Tuesday awarded an 87-year-old Marlborough woman more than $2 million after finding she was sexually assaulted at a local nursing home in 2011. The verdict in favor of Marie Claire Courchaine is the highest in a nursing home case in Massachusetts state […]

Authorities in Anderson County are investigating after a body covered in cat litter was found underneath a home. Investigators say a woman cleaning the home found the…

From New York Daily News Ingram Publishing/Getty Images/Igram Publishing ‘Most governments are woefully unprepared for the dementia epidemic,’ according to a new report…

ANDERSON (AP) — Authorities in Anderson County are investigating after a body covered in cat litter was found underneath a home. Investigators say a woman cleaning the home found the body late Monday night. Deputies confirmed the human remains, but had to wait until there was enough light outside to search. Authorities say the body […]

  from New York Daily News Ingram Publishing/Getty Images/Ingram Publishing ‘Most governments are woefully unprepared for the dementia epidemic,’ according to a new report. Many governments are woefully unprepared for an epidemic of dementia currently affecting 44 million people worldwide and set to more than treble to 135 million people by 2050, health experts and […]