California Atty. Gen. Says Nursing Director Controlled Patients with Drugs. Jan. 5, 2010— -- What happened in a bucolic nursing home nestled in the California mountains starting in 2003 shocked ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

DALLASTOWN — In the three years before his death in 2021, Harold Garretson fell more than 30 times in various central Pennsylvania care facilities. Angela Perkinson believes many of her father's ...

Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...

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Restraint techniques have long been used on psychiatric patients when they become uncontrollably violent, but last year's inquiry into the death of David "Rocky" Bennett raised serious questions about ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

Although the use of physical restraint was generally uncommon in the emergency department (ED), Black patients were more likely to experience this during patient encounters compared with white ...

A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed ...