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Use of antipsychotics soaring at Ontario nursing homes

April 17, 2014

Powerful, potentially lethal drugs are used off-label to control behaviour among dementia patients at alarming rates ...

Old like me? Why elderly care needs more risk…

April 17, 2014

Risk. Its a dirty word in the nursing home industry, and in the face of recent and high-profile incidents like ...

Sudden shutdown of N.S. nursing home raises questions about seniors' safety

February 21, 2014

The shutdown of a private nursing home is raising questions about the safety of Nova Scotia seniors. Fire officials ...

Apathy and Systemic Abuse of Seniors

February 15, 2014

As a cohesive social unit, our virtue is not measured in our treatment of the most powerful among us. If it ...

How an Ontario seniors’-home fire changed the rules on sprinkler safety

January 24, 2014

The fire at Muskoka Heights Retirement Residence broke out shortly after 6 a.m. The lone worker on duty rushed into the ...

Dying to be heard: Plight of seniors in care begs better followup, families say

January 22, 2014

More are being attacked in long-term facilities One day last June, staff at a Kamloops, B.C., nursing home found ...

Alzheimer's patient dies after fall from hospital window

October 18, 2013

Family of Gerald Serroul says he died at the Northside General Hospital in North Sydney Cape Breton Regional Police ...

Advocate pushes for standards of care for dementia patients

October 18, 2013

Two fatalities involving dementia patients underscore Nova Scotia’s need to develop standards of care for such ...

Dementia home death has group calling for more oversight

October 18, 2013

A tragic incident at a private home for seniors with dementia has some calling for more oversight. Police were ...

Death of senior at Halifax care home ruled a homicide

October 18, 2013

Halifax police say the death of an elderly woman at a Clayton Park nursing home has been ruled a homicide. Officers ...