Carson Choate – A Denver-area nursing home is being sued for neglect after a 97-year-old patient at the facility allegedly wandered outside and died from the cold while trying to get back in.
The patient, identified as Mary Jo Staub, had been living at the Balfour at Lavender Farms assisted living facility in Louisville, Colorado, since 2019, according to the Washington Post.
In February 2022, Staub reportedly wandered outside of the facility after midnight and was locked out. Continue reading
Sometimes, when you are not able to take care of your loved ones, you want someone trustworthy who can look after them. This is where nursing homes come into play. A nursing home is a place where a professional staff looks after elderly and disabled people. For example, those who have settled abroad, prefer to send their parents to a nursing home where their needs are met.
Know that simply sending your loved ones to a nursing home is not enough. Still, you have to look after them to check whether their needs are met and how they treat them. After all, not all nursing homes are the same. Continue reading
(New Scientist) Stories of dying patients being denied drinks and unnecessarily sedated by nurses have this week triggered the demise of a controversial system of end-of-life care in the UK.
The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was introduced a decade ago into the UK’s National Health Service, and was meant to import into hospitals and care homes the same kind of end-of-life procedures successfully developed and applied in hospices.
These included halting futile treatment and drugs when death is expected within hours or days, increasing pain relief if necessary and summoning and consulting with relatives on where the patient would prefer to die, and how best to handle the patient’s last hours.