Hunter nursing homes called out for non-compliance Nursing homes named and shamed on watchdogs non-compliance register Newcastle Herald · Jun 26, 2023
10 Things You Should Know About Nursing Homes Chronically understaffed and expensive, nursing homes have changed over the years, much of it for the worse. But they fill a need for many. How do you find a good one? Kiplinger · Jun 24, 2023
West Lothian nursing home raises phenomenal £3000 for MND charity Workers at Livingston’s Kirk Lane Nursing Home took part in the Kilt Walk recently Daily Record · Jun 23, 2023
State failed in its care to nursing home resident who was raped by healthcare worker, Varadkar says A healthcare worker was jailed for 11 years for the rape of a resident who was known by the pseudonym 'Emily' Irish Mirror · Jun 21, 2023
Catherine Rowntree obituary Other lives: Ward sister who set up an innovative stroke rehab unit and later opened a nursing home for young people with neurological conditions The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2023
What if you can’t afford long-term care? As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn’t afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years in a nursing home, according to a recent analysis The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2023
Ex-healthcare worker jailed for sexually assaulting elderly woman in Kildare nursing home where he worked Michael Tuohy's victim's daughter told how she must have been paralysed with fear Irish Mirror · Jun 9, 2023
Renfrewshire carer who screamed and swore at vulnerable resident slapped with warning Louis-Paul Levinson was employed as a support worker at Kyle Court Nursing Home when he was found to have shouted and swore at a resident, saying to them "you are a b*****d". Glasgow Live · Jun 9, 2023
Supreme Court preserves Medicaid recipients' right to sue - Roll Call Hospital argued Medicaid patients can't sue because they are third parties in a contract between the state and the federal government. Roll Call · Jun 8, 2023
Airdrie and Glasgow care homes close due to liquidation Cashflow problems and falling occupancy push a nursing home and dementia centre to shut Insider UK · Jun 7, 2023
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says elderly won't be left in lurch with nursing homes converted for refugees The Taoiseach acknowledged that nursing homes are closing for this purpose, but he said that bed numbers in nursing homes could be kept steady Dublin Live · Jun 4, 2023
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says elderly won't be left in lurch with nursing homes converted for refugees “I always say when it comes to the issue of asylum and migration is that we need to be fair, we also need to be firm" Irish Mirror · Jun 2, 2023
Six Dublin nursing homes close since 2020 as costs spike A new report commissioned by Nursing Homes Ireland showed that operational costs are casting the future of some nursing homes into doubt Dublin Live · May 31, 2023
Former carers mourn 'heartbreaking' death of man at nursing home Jimmy's death was an "absolutely unnecessary tragic waste" Liverpool Echo · May 29, 2023
ABC News · May 27, 2023 Tandara Lodge Nursing Home Auxiliary in Tasmania's north-west closing after 45 years A volunteer group that's helped make residents of a Tasmanian nursing home feel comfortable and looked after for 45 years is closing because its members are ageing and it can't find new recruits.
ABC News · May 27, 2023 COVID outbreaks, hospitalisations rise in Hunter New England as cases surge in nursing homes, schools NSW Health officials are encouraging people to get COVID boosters as cases spread, with nursing homes copping the brunt of a winter surge.
Bangkok Post · May 24, 2023 95-year-old woman tasered by Australian police dies SYDNEY: A 95-year-old great-grandmother died Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, police said.
ABC News · May 24, 2023 Clare Nowland, 95-year-old woman tasered at Cooma nursing home, dies in hospital Clare Nowland fell and fractured her skull after she was tasered by police during an incident at a Cooma nursing home last week.
Reason · May 24, 2023 Brickbat: Watch Out, She's Got a Knife Clare Nowland, 95, is in a New South Wales, Australia, hospital after Tasered by a senior constable. Nowland, who has dementia, is a nursing home resident. The constable had been called to that nursing home because Nowland had a knife. "At the time she was Tasered she was approaching police.…
The New Daily · May 23, 2023 Officer who tasered 95yo woman suspended from duty The NSW senior police constable who tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother in her nursing home has been suspended from duty with pay.
ABC News · May 22, 2023 Aged care regulator slams Royal Freemasons Moe in report over 70-year-old resident's death on footpath The aged care regulator has delivered a scathing report into eastern Victorian nursing home Royal Freemasons Moe after an investigation into the death of a resident in May 2022.
ABC News · May 20, 2023 Police officers being called to aged care homes is 'standard protocol', industry expert says The family of 95-year-old taser victim, Clare Nowland, maintain a bedside vigil as questions are raised about why NSW Police police were called to her nursing home.
The New Daily · May 20, 2023 NSW top cop can’t bring herself to watch footage of granny being tasered As her condition deteriorates, NSW's top cop won't watch video of a 95-year-old grandmother being tasered in a nursing home
AAP · May 19, 2023 NSW top cop will not watch tasered grandma bodycam NSW's police commissioner will not watch video of the tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother in a nursing home, as the elderly woman's condition worsens.
WEKU · May 19, 2023 Australian police officer investigated after using a Taser on a 95-year-old woman The nursing home resident was found alone in her room with a steak knife when the officer in question fired his Taser. The woman is now in critical condition at the hospital.