Fighting For The Elderly, Vulnerable and Injured.
Physical and Chemical Restraints – Friend or Foe? Physical and Chemical Restraints Dangerous to Nursing Home Patients It is a common practice among nursing homes today to use restraints, both physical and chemical, to medically treat a patient. Not all restraints are illegal, as there are proper as well as improper uses of restraints. Restraints are used correctly when they…
Nursing Homes’ Misuse of Medications May Increase Risk of Dementia Another study concludes that benzodiazepine use is associated with an increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This recent study states that unwarranted, long term use of benzodiazepine drugs should be considered as a public health concern. Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs mainly used to treat anxiety or insomnia. Unfortunately, nursing…
Wide Spread Use of Anti-Psychotic Drugs in Nursing Homes Recently, the Federal Government took rare action by filing a federal lawsuit against two California nursing homes for a persistent problem of overmedicating their residents with psychotropic drugs....
Medication Errors Are Increasing in Nursing Homes There is drug abuse going on in a large segment of our health care industry — the increased push of anti-psychotics drugs in nursing homes. These dangerous medications, anti-psychotics, are being prescribed at an...
Elderly Patients Who are Given Anti-Psychotic Medications are at a Greater Risk of Acute Kidney Injury A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs – The Annals of Internal Medicine published a recent report about a study that concludes that there are safety concerns about the use of antipsychotic drugs…