Maine has the 12th highest rate of long-term nursing home residents on antipsychotics, which carry health risks.

While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...

It's one of the worst fears we have for our parents or for ourselves: that we, or they, will end up in a nursing home, drugged into a stupor. And that fear is not entirely unreasonable. Almost 300,000 ...

Among over 60,000 nursing home residents who initiated antihypertensive medication, rates of excess fractures due to falls per 100 person-years were as high as 5 among certain patient groups, such as ...

Principle LTC, operator of 45 nursing homes in the Southeast, is building on its successful role testing a key drug for COVID-19 prevention and treatment to facilitate trials of a new Alzheimer drug.

New Hampshire lawmakers are weighing a measure to funnel state funding to skilled nursing facilities that train employees as medication nursing assistants. The goal is to increase certifications for ...

On NPR this week, correspondent Ina Jaffe reported on an alarming trend taking place in many nursing homes across the nation: Patients are being overly medicated with antipsychotic drugs when they don ...

Legal actions aim to ensure abortions can be provided in emergencies; cold medication ingredient phenylephrine found to be ineffective; American nursing homes are scoring low on care quality. Several ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Non-pharmacologic interventions for Alzheimer’s and dementia reduced the risk for nursing home admission and ...