NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Aggression among nursing home residents is extremely common, and often triggered by territorial issues, according to one of only a handful of studies to look at this issue.

In the first large-scale study on resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (RREM) in nursing homes, researchers found a one-month prevalence of all RREM types of 20%. The sample consisted of 2,011 ...

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

CONSPIRACY CHARGES. FIVE INVESTIGATES NOW WITH MORE ON THAT TRAGIC CASE HERE INVOLVING AN ELDERLY RESIDENT INJURED IN AN ASSISTED LIVING HOME. AS BRITTANY JOHNSON REPORTED YESTERDAY, THE SHOVE AND ...

In July, Jennifer O’Brien got the phone call that adult children dread. Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip. O’Brien is a health care ...

CARLISLE, Pa. — A Maryland man has been charged with assaulting a patient at a Cumberland County nursing home, authorities said this week. Joseph Ikoghode, 47, of Elliott City, was employed by the ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A nursing home patient in Cumberland County had to be taken to the hospital after being assaulted by a caretaker, according to police. Joseph Ikoghode, 47, of Maryland, ...