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Choosing the right care home for your relatives can be difficult, but the Care Quality Commission inspections and rankings can give you an idea

Milo helped to kick-start Christmas at Heatherfield Nursing Home

The building has lain empty since the nursing home closed last year

When one of the biggest owners of Pennsylvania nursing homes, Welltower Inc., announced this month that new companies would take over the day-to-day management at 147 nursing homes in 15 states, it was no great surprise.

CHICAGO — The 95-year-long life of Michael Butler, which ended on Nov. 7 at a nursing home in California was the stuff of legend and adjectives.

Gorgi Talevski did not live long enough to see his case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this month. A Macedonian-born resident of Indiana, Talevski operated a crane for three decades, raised a family and loved to dance before his dementia deepened, and he died last year.

Matthew McCanny, manager of Kirk Lane Nursing Home, was named Positive Impact award winner.

Michael Riley, of Byker, stole items from the care home in Byker then returned six months later and tried to get in again

Plans have been lodged to turn Strathmore House, on Church Hill, into a housing block consisting of six flats with the building having been disused for years after it stopped operating as a nursing home

The terrified large deer smashed through the window of a nursing home and became disoriented as it attempted to escape the room full of mirrors at a rehabilitation centre

As some SA residents face more than a week in the dark after storms brought down power lines, an Adelaide Hills nursing home that is still without mains supply has attracted criticism, with the daughter of one 89-year-old resident expressing concerns.