Without community nursing services willing to receive elderly individuals coming from carceral settings, people granted parole continue to remain in prison. Without a clear discharge plan of care ...

Elderly people living on their own who fall at home can often be left helpless for hours until neighbours or care staff are alerted. Meanwhile, bed-blocking, caused by elderly patients who are fit ...

A new educational model that informs long-term care providers on intervention ... Nearly half of nursing home residents fall each year, the study found. Falls are the leading cause of injury ...

Harris said she’d ask Congress to expand Medicare to cover the cost of this long-term care in people’s homes, so elderly and disabled people can get help without having to go into nursing ...

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ... a nursing home or other institution. If you qualify for PACE, you and your family work with a health care team on your health care plan ...

Assembly Bill 942 would create a "duty of care" in assisted living and nursing homes, Palmeri said. DHS would create new fall prevention and recovery programs for both the residents and employees ...