By Jean Renard Ward Nowadays, everyone is familiar with gestures on touchscreens from using their smartphone or tablet: gestures such as slide, pinch-to-zoom, swipe (or flick), twist, and press-and-hold (or long press). Smartphones with touchscreens and gestures started taking off with the Apple iPod Touch and iPhone in 2007. But the technical art of gestures… read more
PLASTIC: THE UBIQUITOUS MATERIAL Plastics have been an ever-growing part of our way of life – from the first synthetic plastic (Bakelite) developed by Belgian-born chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1907[1], to Wallace H. Carothers’s discovery of nylon and the resulting nylon stockings rage of the 1940’s[2], to the Tupperware craze of the 1950’s, to… read more
Sally Damm, LNHA There are currently 1.8 million residents in long-term care facilities. With the population aging, this number can be expected to grow. As the resident population increases, the amount of litigation may also increase. Allegations of elder abuse and nursing home litigation cases can include both medical and administrative decisions. A licensed nursing… read more
By Sally Damm, LNHA Administration for Community Living, (AIDD) is a sector of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). AIDD provides financial and leadership support to organizations in every state and territory in the United States. The AIDD exists to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families can fully participate… read more
By: Kenneth C. McCawley, RN October 5, 2016 OVERVIEW Avoidable pressure ulcer development continues to lead negative health outcomes in skilled nursing facilities. Many of these negative health outcomes can be attributed to medical negligence. The following statistics are in relation to pressure ulcer development: Number Affected: 2.5 million patients per year. Cost: Pressure ulcers… read more
By Sally Damm There is a grave societal concern when a matured person experiences a fall, but if that falls occurs in a nursing home there is added fear and alarm. After all, didn’t placement in the nursing home provide the security of no more falling? Falls are a common occurrence among elderly citizens, when… read more
By: Anthony Guarino, MD Background Opioids have been available for therapeutic use for decades having previously been used primarily for cancer patients with pain (malignant pain). Long term use of these medications in patients without cancer (non-malignant) was feared because of the risk of addiction. These treatment thoughts had changed for many physicians during the… read more
By Sally Damm, LNHA A person goes to the hospital to get well and have babies but people that are admitted to the nursing home go to die. Do you believe this? How many times have you heard “promise me you’ll never put me in a nursing home”. As a multiple-award winning nursing home and… read more
By Dr. Chris Daft Engineering inventions to improve health date back at least to 1850, when the famous physicist Hermann von Helmholtz devised the ophthalmoscope. One of the first medical devices, it allows a doctor to look at the interior of a patient’s eye. In the latter part of the 20th century the pace of… read more
By Karen Reimers, MD Direct clinical examination of the testator is the basis for contemporaneous assessment of testamentary capacity. In retrospective assessments where the testator is deceased, experts rely on collateral evidence, i.e. alternative sources of data about a testator’s testamentary capacity and mental function. Retrospective Assessment In the majority of retrospective assessments of testamentary… read more
