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 ...

With some extra support from their managers, staff at long-term care communities can reduce the use of physical restraints on residents without raising the risk for falls, according to a new study.

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 ...

The facility was cited for failing to ensure all allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation were reported to the Iowa ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...

"Physical restraint should be available only where it is necessary and when no alternative method is available to prevent escape, injury or serious damage to property by the person restrained or ...