Elder Law Blog

New York had one of the highest nursing home death rates in the United States in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The daily infection rates in the Empire State are way down but the damage has been done. Families watched as hundreds of their loved ones died horrific deaths.
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Westfield, New Jersey police and the state health department are investigating whether wounds suffered by an 86- year old resident of the Westfield Center nursing home were the result of a fall, as the nursing home claims, or whether she was assaulted by staff, as per her son’s version of...

Hurricane Irma struck South Florida with a vengeance in September 2017, leaving 75 percent of the state without power. Many people died from the storm’s effects, including 12 residents of the Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills, just outside Miami.
On August 26, an administrator...

(Reader discretion advised) A 30-year-old nurse has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, tampering and neglect of a care dependent person by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. The charges stem from the horrific death of an 84-year-old nursing home patient in Upper Roxborough,...