Nursing Home Crisis: Is a Wave of 'Transfer Trauma' Coming?
Twenty patients in a rural facility in Virginia were told to move out and now more than half are now dead. What can be done about this crisis?
Source: aarp.org
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Twenty patients in a rural facility in Virginia were told to move out and now more than half are now dead. What can be done about this crisis?
Every second, an older person in the United States falls and injures themselves, and every 20 minutes one of them dies from the fall. More than 30 percent of adults 65 and older fall every year and 25 percent of them have moderate to severe injuries.