The COVID-19 virus continues to be a danger to the elderly. The total goes up every day, but more than 90,000 deaths took place in the country’s 15,000 long-care residencies. This pushes the staff, who also contract the disease at a higher rate, past their limits....

There are more than 4,500 deaths of nursing home and assisted living facility residents attributed to the COVID-19. But a data entry error by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) was discovered last month, indicating that the state was not providing...

Whether your elderly parent or loved one recently moved into a nursing home or they’ve lived there for some time, it’s crucial that you check in on their well-being. Aging can be difficult physically and emotionally, and far too often it gets even more painful when...

As wonderful as a nursing home can be, it's simply not an easy decision for families to place their loved ones in one. However, due to work or lack of funds, a nursing home is often the best-case scenario for many people. Although there are plenty of amazing...

When you were bullied by other kids in school, your mom and dad may have stepped in. Perhaps they had a meeting with the principal, called the bully's parents or maybe even had a talk with the little miscreant themselves. Now you have a parent in a nursing home or...

Many stood by feeling helpless as elderly parents or loved ones living in elder care facilities suffered from a lack of family contact. Without an attentive child or spouse to visit, some who did not contract the COVID-19 virus suffered in other ways. There were...

If are making plans to take an elderly loved one out of a nursing home or other care facility where they've been neglected or abused, you may be considering caring for them at home. Whether you envision home care as a relatively short-term solution until you find a...

Countless news outlets cover the plight of COVID-19 in nursing homes and eldercare facilities. It is an important story because they have compromised immune systems, their age and close living quarters all make then more vulnerable to the virus. Families even have...

Your elderly mother has been happily and successfully living on her own, so you've been able to avoid looking at nursing homes. Then she suffered a minor stroke, fell and broke her hip. She's finishing up her hospital stay, and her doctor says she needs to spend some...

If you're like many people, you've placed a loved one in a Texas nursing home or assisted living facility because you believed you couldn't provide adequate care for them. You expected that your parent would be happy and healthy living there. What you didn't expect...