One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as 5 million older Americans are abused each year, and many of them live in nursing homes. Nursing homes use restraints with the intention to ...

Lester Buskist never did adjust to living in a nursing home. His body and mind were deteriorating, but memories of an active life remained fresh. Just months before a serious fall put him in Highland ...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ At least 14 residents of Oklahoma nursing homes suffocated or strangled to death on restraints between 1990 and 1999, according to a published report. An analysis of death ...

A new Cochrane review finds that the use of physical restraints on care home residents can be reduced without increasing the risk of falls, when frontline care staff are empowered by supportive ...