| Today's Picks: A worrying look inside care homes
Putting your closest relative into a nursing home is traumatic enough. One Panorama interviewee, whose mother had to enter a home after a stroke, describes it as the "ultimate in trust". But she was to die a terrible and painful death, because she was severely neglected. Panorama has discovered various cases in which people have been unsafe and unprotected in nursing homes. Instead of being looked after, vulnerable, elderly people were insulted, neglected, roughly handled or assaulted. A former care worker talks about nursing home residents being sworn at and physically abused, and care records for the official regulator being made up, ready for inspections.
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Sir Trevor visits a Dutch clinic to discover why the NHS is losing the battle against deadly infections which Europeans have eradicated.
Katrina Aid Today Partners Focus on Affordable Housing
Katrina Aid Today case managers have assisted more than 37,500 families as of Jan. 31 (roughly 97,000 people), up nearly 10,000 cases since Oct. 31, according to a report released today. "Hurricane Katrina survivors are facing many challenges, but our case managers continue to create inventive ways to help them," said Jim Cox, interim executive director of Katrina Aid Today. Housing is one of the most important steps in recovery, but often it is the most difficult to obtain or maintain, according to the report. Bob Lowery, a Katrina Aid Today case manager and the director of the Realtor Relief Fund for the Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi (LESM), witnessed the rise in housing costs along the Gulf Coast first hand and knew something needed to be done.
Home, lifestyle expo has 45 vendors
The Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce and Main Street is presenting the North Central Illinois Home and Lifestyle Expo from 4 to 8 p.m. Feb. 9 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Bureau County Fairgrounds, Princeton.This trade show allows vendors to showcase their specialty products and services to area consumers.Approximately 45 vendors will be on hand with specialties ranging from real estate to portrait photography, senior living services to pools and spas, insurance to cosmetics, financial services to siding and windows and more. These trained, versatile professionals will be able, during the course of the Expo, to offer direction and advice to area consumers on just about any project planned.Door prizes will be announced throughout the event. Two final winning attendees will be selected randomly to receive a $200 gift certificate to be used at any Princeton Chamber and Main Street member.
Daughter claims Seroquel caused father's death at nursing home
The estate of LaRue Simms filed a wrongful death suit against three local nursing homes claiming a drug they gave him contributed to his death.
LaRue Simms' daughter, Lisa Simms, special administrator of the estate, claims her father was a resident at the Alhambra Care Center, VIP Manor and Cahokia Nursing and Rehab Center from August 2003 until his death on Feb. 6, 2005.
She claims the medication Seroquel was given to her father while a resident at the three nursing homes and it caused his death.
She also claims the nursing homes failed to provide her father with appropriate medical care, failed to keep him free of chemical restraints, failed to employ staff adequately trained and failed to ensure her father's drug regimen was free fom unnecessary drugs.
Assisted-living patient arrested in hand saw attack; 3 hurt
(01-30) 15:12 PST PETALUMA -- A resident of an assisted living facility was arrested early today after he allegedly attacked a fellow resident with a hand saw and threw a wheelchair down a flight of stairs at officers, who finally subdued him with the use of a stun gun. David J. Cooper, 53, faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer in the 1:35 a.m. incident. About that time, Petaluma police received a report of a disturbance inside the Sunrise Assisted Living Facility at 815 Wood Sorrel Drive. Responding officers found a female resident in the lobby suffering from what appeared to be serious head wounds, said Sgt. Matthew Stapleton. Employees alerted officers that the suspect, later identified as Cooper, was still armed and inside the home.
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