Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Making Life Better for Residents in Kentucky Nursing Homes

Beyond mourning the loss of independent living, people who move into a nursing home should not view this life change with dread. Such feelings are...

Exercise Your Body to Keep More of Your Brain, Kentucky

Having just read about a study showing that maintaining an active lifestyle may help keep the brain from deteriorating so quickly, I’m brainstorming ways to...

How to Keep Kentucky Nursing Home Residents From Hurting Each Other

Although we generally think of Kentucky nursing home abuse as an abuse of a resident by a caregiver, residents often abuse each other. How can...

A Must-Read if You Have a Loved One in a Kentucky Nursing Home

“The prescribing of antipsychotic medications persists at high levels in U.S. nursing homes despite extensive data demonstrating marginal clinical benefits and serious adverse effects, including...

Considering Contractures in Kentucky Nursing Home Residents

Many elderly nursing home residents in Kentucky and elsewhere throughout the world develop contractures. When joints and muscles do not move, they stiffen, causing the...

Ten Percent of Kentucky Seniors Have Probably Been Abused

I marvel at how lucky—and how cursed—we are to be alive at this point in history. Think about it…. Just about anything you want to...