It has been known for some time that nursing home care is not the same in every nursing care facility.  In a recent study published by a nonprofit advocacy group, Families for Better Care, the group's review looked at nursing homes and care found in these facilities found in each state.  The Families for Better Care state that it is the first state-by-state review of nursing home care that has been ...

[Editor's note: the following blog post was written by Brian Garavagli] 

A national report on nursing homes, conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, has found some very sobering, if not frightening, results. The study found that as many as one-third of all nursing home residents were harmed by their treatment!

The ...

In a recent study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a high percentage of Medicare residents who are discharged from nursing homes often are re-hospitalized within 30 days. Individuals receiving care within nursing homes in which the care is being paid for by Medicare are often there after they have been discharged from the hospital and are in continued need of receiving rehabilitative ...

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A current book that is on the New York Times best seller list, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar-Your Brain's Silent Killers, written by Neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter, asserts that a diet high in carbohydrates can actually be instrumental in the development of dementia.  Perlmutter, who ...

Recent research over the last few decades has paid increasing attention to aging at the molecular level. In particular, a genetic component called telomeres, has garnered much attention over the last few decades. Chromosomes are long strands of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. DNA is our molecular blueprint of who we are, being the genetic blueprint for forming our genome. Telomeres are found at the end of ...

When the intercom buzzed and her boss said "Carrie, please step into my office," she assumed there was a new problem that had arisen, or a job that needed to be done, and she brought ...

Let me be clear: lawyers are problem solvers. We fix problems after they happen. We rarely are able to stop something that is already in play, for example, a plan by your boss to send you packing. While Hollywood and television have imbued lawyers with magical qualities on the order ...

Recently a patently ridiculous ...

Several years ago I went ...

One of the concepts that lay people have trouble with in terms of the law is the concept of standing. Standing basically means that a person must have a "justiciable interest" in a lawsuit. That means that the decision in the lawsuit must directly affect them.

In its simplest terms, standing is about whose ox got gored  Suppose a woman at the mall, in order to get to a sale item, hits your sister ...

Suppose you went to the auto mechanic and he told you that you needed your tires rotated and your oil changed. You wait patiently in the waiting room for 20 minutes and then someone brings you out your keys, takes your money, and sends you on your way. But back in the mechanical part of the shop the only service you received was to have the oil that was already in your car topped off, and no one touched your tires. ...