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Protect our elders from nursing home abuse

Nursing home abuse and neglect has increasingly become a pressing issue that concerns our elderly today.  This has become a scary epidemic that happens not just in other countries but in the United States....

4 comments    medical malpractice
Laura Thykeson profile image76

Abuse Of The Elderly In Nursing Homes - The Sad Truth

Abuse and neglect of the elderly is a fact that can happen in nursing homes. A large amount of the people that live in nursing homes are as helpless as...

0 comments    health advice family
Somerset Autism Care - Homes Profiting From Autism74

Somerset Autism Care Home Abuse – Homes Profiting from Autism

Having recently finished working for a residential autism specific care home within Somerset in the UK, and being less than impressed with the way privatised autism care can be operated in the wrong hands I...

7 comments    homes scandal home abuse
Take The Time To Know The Signs69

Signs of Child Abuse

There is a large and increasing problem that more and more people seem to be ignoring, Child Abuse. According to Newton, "1,500 children die from abuse each year." This number only represents those accounted...

16 comments    family how to relationships
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Alzheimer's Can't Tell / Part 3

Mom was in one of the big hospitals in a near by town to have her knee replacement surgery and they say she will need professional care for awhile after her surgery to learn to get back up walking on her own...

2 comments    health love life
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Nursing Home Abuse Killed My Grandmother

In 1999 my grandmother suffered a stroke that left her immobile. She required around the clock nursing services and with no one to care for her; she had to move into an Nursing Home Facility. When they...

0 comments    therapy anger nursing
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Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

There comes a time in all of our lives that we are faced with the difficult decision of putting our loved ones in a nursing home. It may be a parent or a grandparent that you have to make the decision for....

16 comments    patient staff nursing home
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Nursing Homes - The Daily Unseen Horrors

Here are some examples of real calls that I have run at nursing homes in the last two shifts. These calls are real. They are all from different facilities. This is a normal shift for us. Most of the time when...

0 comments    elderly reverse mortgage hospice
Mom in the Alzheimer's unit with two of her great-grandchildren on Halloween.63

Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse

The time will come for most of us when he have to face that our parents or other elderly loved one can no longer live alone. Maybe you’ve even considered moving in with him, or having him move in with you...

2 comments    nursing home nursing home abuse
Foster Homes64

Foster Homes—Should that be an Option or a Compulsion?

Abuse of Law? Well, it happens everywhere whether we talk about developed, developing or third world countries. Legislators enact laws with some designated purpose which, unfortunately, gets defeated over a...

7 comments    children parents homes
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