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Age has wearied nursing homes and their residents — a sprightly vision is needed

Australia’s population is ageing, and unless fresh air blows through the residential aged care system our frail and elderly will continue to suffer.

Crikey

New York woman found breathing at funeral home after being declared dead

The 82-year-old was pronounced dead at a Long Island nursing home, only to be discovered alive and then taken to a hospital

The Guardian - US

Hurricane deaths at nursing home: accident or manslaughter?

The trial of a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after a 2017 hurricane is underway

The Independent UK

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The eerie abandoned orphanage in County Durham which has stood empty since 1998

After closing in 1983, the building was used as a nursing home between 1986 and 1998, however, it has stood empty ever since

Chronicle Live

Private investors gutting nursing homes

At the height of the pandemic, lavish payments flowed into nursing home companies. Then came the cost-cutting

Salon

Nursing home owners drained cash during pandemic while residents deteriorated

After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally.

Tribune News Service

Nursing home fees controversy: Simon Harris 'comfortable' Government acted in good faith

Speaking in Dublin on Thursday morning, the now-Justice Minister said that he must have been briefed on the matter

Irish Mirror

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Taoiseach admits he 'must have been briefed' on nursing home charges issue but says story has been 'misrepresented'

There have been allegations in recent days that some people were “illegally charged” for nursing home stays

Irish Mirror

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

As the U.S. government debates whether to require higher staffing levels at nursing homes, financial records show some owners routinely push profits to sister companies while residents are neglected.

WEKU

Nursing home fees: Everything you need to know about latest government controversy

There have been allegations that an elaborate legal strategy was undertaken by successive Governments to ensure that those who were wrongly charged for nursing homes did not receive a full refund

Irish Mirror

Hotel's classy response to guest who complained 'place smelled like a nursing home'

A Blackpool hotel owner has hit back at disgruntled guest who complained the building was a "disgrace" and needed a refurbishment, saying the claims were 'frankly a lie'

Daily Mirror

Staffing crunches in nursing homes

Nursing home closures largely stem from a shortage of workers, including nurses and nursing assistants

Salon

Hotel slams guest who complained on TripAdvisor that 'the place smells like a nursing home'

"I totally disagree with this review"

Manchester Evening News

Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch

WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years.

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For-Profit Nursing Homes Had Less Severe Lockdowns, Lower Fatality Rates During Pandemic

A new paper from Mercatus shows how profit motive helped some nursing homes navigate COVID-19 better than others.

Tribune News Service

Florida nursing home workers say they’re not getting minimum wage

It was praised as a solution to Florida’s nursing home staffing crisis.

The Independent UK

Fire kills 3 at German nursing home

Police are searching for the cause of a fire that killed three in a psychiatric nursing home in southern Germany

Asharq Al-Awsat

World’s Oldest Known Person, French Nun, Dies at 118

A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11,…

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The Independent UK

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients

Daily Record

World's oldest person dies at 118 after surviving both World Wars and Covid pandemic

French nun Lucile Randon, who was also known as Sister André, passed away in her sleep at a nursing home in Toulouse yesterday.

The Independent UK

‘For her, it’s a liberation’: World’s oldest person dies in her sleep

Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, died in her sleep at nursing home

The Guardian - UK

World’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, dies at 118

Sister André was born in 1904 and survived an outbreak of Covid-19 in 2021 in her nursing home that killed 10 other residents

Manchester Evening News

Search for missing man with dementia last seen at petrol station after leaving nursing home

It is thought he also had mud down one side of his body and clothing when last seen

The Independent UK

Nursing home owner faces new lawsuit in Ida storm evacuation

A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021

Tribune News Service

Resident trying to smoke cigarette while using oxygen starts fire at North Carolina nursing home

One person was badly burned when a North Carolina nursing home resident using oxygen tried to smoke a cigarette, officials say.

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