Read more nursing homes stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3503/nursing-homes.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:13:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71256/autopsy-shows-100-year-old-was-murdered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Massachusetts medical examiner has ruled the death of a 100-year-old nursing home patient a homicide by strangulation. Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her room Sept. 24, with a plastic bag over her head and no obvious signs of struggle, a law enforcement source tells the Standard-Times of New...http://www.newser.com/story/71256/autopsy-shows-100-year-old-was-murdered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 11:31:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59169/journos-sign-shields-mom-out-of-nursing-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn outraged Brooke Shields says a pair of tabloid reporters hungry for a story checked her mother, a dementia sufferer, out of a nursing home earlier this week, People reports. Shields says police informed her that two National Enquirer reporters posing as her mother's friends signed her out of the...http://www.newser.com/story/59169/journos-sign-shields-mom-out-of-nursing-home.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 16 May 2009 3:25:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55979/save-some-outrage-for-gun-violence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe look back at witch hunts and slavery with shame and consternation, but after reading about our recent spate of gun violence, future historians will regard us as similarly misguided, Cynthia Tucker writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . “These mass shootings are a form of madness, but what’s even more insane...http://www.newser.com/story/55979/save-some-outrage-for-gun-violence.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 12 Apr 2009 10:06:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54779/nc-gunmans-wife-worked-at-rampage-scene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe wife of the man charged with killing 8 yesterday worked at the North Carolina nursing home he chose for his murderous rampage, the New York Times reports. Local police said gunman Robert Stewart was likely separated from Wanda Luck, but declined to say if she was in the building...http://www.newser.com/story/54779/nc-gunmans-wife-worked-at-rampage-scene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 30 Mar 2009 14:23:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54704/8-dead-in-nc-nursing-home-shooting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home early today, killing at least eight people and wounding several others, police said. The local police chief says the shootings happened around 10am at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the town of Carthage. Authorities say the gunman, who's in custody,...http://www.newser.com/story/54704/8-dead-in-nc-nursing-home-shooting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 29 Mar 2009 14:02:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54172/after-14-years-nj-alzheimers-patient-identified.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA long-unidentified woman with Alzheimer’s who has spent the past 14 years in New Jersey psychiatric hospitals finally has a name—and may now be moved to a nursing home, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. A suspected illegal immigrant before she was identified, Elba Leonor Diaz Soccaras, 74, was ineligible for...http://www.newser.com/story/54172/after-14-years-nj-alzheimers-patient-identified.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Mar 2009 10:05:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50204/feds-slam-nursing-homes-for-1-star-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRife with mistreated patients and poor conditions, nearly one quarter of US nursing homes received 1 out of 5 stars in a new Washington rating program. “The conditions described are grim and, at times, deadly,” Sam Roe writes in the Chicago Tribune of Illinois’ one-star homes. Cold food, useless staff,...http://www.newser.com/story/50204/feds-slam-nursing-homes-for-1-star-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Feb 2009 17:04:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43374/elderly-trapped-in-houses-that-wont-sell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe collapse of the housing market has left many elderly people marooned in their own homes, the New York Times reports. Retirement communities require hefty down payments that many elderly were expecting to raise by selling their homes. With no buyers out there, frail people requiring daily care are stuck...http://www.newser.com/story/43374/elderly-trapped-in-houses-that-wont-sell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Nov 2008 6:19:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42099/the-battle-to-get-elderly-back-on-their-feet-after-falls.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFalling and breaking a hip is so common among the elderly it's been considered an inevitable sign of aging, but medical experts have now developed complex protocols to both prevent and treat breaks that often trigger a spiral of decline, the New York Times reports. Even minor falls "need to...http://www.newser.com/story/42099/the-battle-to-get-elderly-back-on-their-feet-after-falls.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 08 Nov 2008 8:46:32 CST