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 ...
April 17, 2014
Powerful, potentially lethal drugs are used off-label to control behaviour among dementia patients at alarming rates ...
April 17, 2014
Risk. Its a dirty word in the nursing home industry, and in the face of recent and high-profile incidents like ...
February 21, 2014
The shutdown of a private nursing home is raising questions about the safety of Nova Scotia seniors. Fire officials ...
February 15, 2014
As a cohesive social unit, our virtue is not measured in our treatment of the most powerful among us. If it ...
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 ...
January 22, 2014
More are being attacked in long-term facilities One day last June, staff at a Kamloops, B.C., nursing home found ...
October 18, 2013
Family of Gerald Serroul says he died at the Northside General Hospital in North Sydney Cape Breton Regional Police ...
October 18, 2013
Two fatalities involving dementia patients underscore Nova Scotia’s need to develop standards of care for such ...
October 18, 2013
A tragic incident at a private home for seniors with dementia has some calling for more oversight. Police were ...
October 18, 2013
Halifax police say the death of an elderly woman at a Clayton Park nursing home has been ruled a homicide. Officers ...