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The COVID-19 pandemic has been alarming for all. However, these concerns are much more widespread among families with loved ones in nursing homes. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has revealed a total of 294,438 confirmed…

The majority of nursing home injuries are preventable, which is why it shouldn’t be assumed that they’re all accidents. Framing them as an accident minimizes the real problem at hand: the negligence of caregivers and nursing home facilities. We entrust…

Nursing homes, like much of the rest of the world, have been caught in the crosshairs of the coronavirus pandemic. When COVID-19 began to escalate in early 2020, many nursing homes decided to close their doors. Shutting out visitors was…

When you place your elderly family member in a nursing home, you’re putting a large amount of trust in the establishment and its staff to care for and respect them. When that trust is broken in the form of nursing…

When a young person suffers an injury from a fall, they tend to pop right back up having sustained only minor damage. When a serious injury does occur, which doesn’t happen often, they usually recover relatively quickly. But as the…

Accidental falls are the number one cause of injury and death to the population aged 65 and over. According to the New York Department of Health, 51,231 injury-related falls among elders led to hospitalization, and around 11 percent of those…

Living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can require extensive and pervasive needs, from resources and coping strategies to support and treatment plans. TBI can include anything between a closed-head or open-wound injury to a crushing brain injury. Those who…

Scammers have always been around—they’ve just become smarter, sneakier, and quicker. Email scams that were once easy to monitor have been upgraded and revised into some of the world’s most fraudulent scams. But for scammers, the overall purpose remains the…

The idea of moving your loved one to a nursing home is often frightening to consider. Despite a stellar selection of facilities to choose from in the New York City area, transitioning your loved one to a nursing home means…