Chemical Restraint Is Still Used in Nursing Homes

Human Rights Watch stated today that the Australian government should ban the use of chemical restraints in nursing homes to regulate the conduct of elderly persons with dementia. The Royal Commission on Aged Care Quality and Safety delivered its final report one year ago, in March 2021, advocati...

Singapore’s Ministry of Health Investigating the Matter of a Woman Being Given the 4th Dose of Covid-19

Singapore's Ministry of Health is now conducting a thorough investigation of an incident in which a 103-year-old woman in the Chai Chee Nursing Home was mistakenly given the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccination.

The woman was a resident at the ECON Healthcare Home when a mobile vacci...

ARMED FORCES OF PORTUGAL HELPED NURSING HOMES TO FIGHT AGAINST THE COVID-19

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• The armed forces of Portugal will be helping the nursing homes for battling the novel corona virus
• Diana Correia, who looks for the nursing home, gets stunned as she recalls that 24 of the 55 of the residents of her nursing home

Global Nursing Care Market is Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 7.41% Over the Forecast Period, Owing to the Increasing Demand for Highly Skilled Nursing Professionals for Home-based Care, says Absolute Markets Insights

Quality nursing services is of the utmost importance in the healthcare industry. Skilled nurses supplement doctors and other health professionals, and play a vital role in the access of critical care for the individuals. Nursing care is also being provided for specialized illnesses. US-based FAMI...

NURSING HOME STAFF IN OKAYAMA PREFECTURE ROUTINELY TIED UP ITS RESIDENTS

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• Nursing home staff in Okayama prefecture routinely tied up its residents.
• The nursing home is run by a social welfare corporation Shomei Fukushikai.
• The prefectural govt. has banned the corporation from accepting new resi...

GOVERNMENT SHIFTS GAZE TO TERMINALLY ILL AND ELDERLY COVID-19 PATIENTS REDUCING MORTALITY RATES

• The government has shifted gaze from COVID-19 quarantine policies of preventing new cases to lowering death rates, the health authorities said Monday.
• As the country has changed ideologies by coexisting with the coronavirus, government officials are looking at management of the...

JAPAN’S USE OF OVERNIGHT NURSING SERVICE AT CARE FACILITIES PLUNGED BY 20.0% IN MAY

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• Japan’s use of overnight service at care facilities plunged by 20.0% in May.
• The number of those using temporary overnight services at care facilities fell 15.6 percent in April.
• Nursing-care benefits paid for care...

SOUTH KOREA LET UP ANTIVIRUS MEASURES REGISTERING 88 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES

• South Korea registered 88 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, as health authorities remain on red alert over batches of infections at senior care homes and the upcoming Halloween weekend expected to crowd nightlife spots.
• Of the cases, 72 cases were locally transmitted and 16 imported ...

SOUTH KOREA’S NEW CONFIRMED CASELOADS BACK IN THREE FIGURES

• South Korea's new coronavirus cases shot up to over 100 on Thursday mainly due to a new infection due to gathering of people in the southeastern port city of Busan amid a further lessened social distancing scheme
• The country multiplied to 110 COVID-19 cases, including 95 lo...

SECOND WAVE OF CORONA VIRUS HITS NURSING HOMES THE MOST

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• Nursing homes have been hit the hardest in terms of infection rates and fatalities
• The second surge is making things worse for these establishments

Nursing homes have always been vulnerable to the covid19 infections. When the pandemic hit...

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO DELIVER STOCKPILED ADDITIONAL CLOTH MASKS TO NURSING CARE FACILITIES

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• Japanese government to deliver stockpiled additional cloth masks to nursing care.
• Shinzo Abe was criticized about the distribution of the cloth masks.
• The Prime Minister had aimed to start distribution of 80 million clot...

JAPAN REVISES BASIC GUIDELINES ON NURSING CARE; INFECTIOUS DISEASES INCLUDED

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• Japan revises basic guidelines on nursing care; infectious diseases included.
• Ministry of Japan to include measures for natural disasters as well.
• The revision was approved by the Minister of Health, Labor, and Welfare.<...

INSLEE’S PHASE 2 REOPENING FOR COVID HIGH KING & PIERCE COUNTY A BAD IDEA

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• Governor Inslee of Washington letting some counties open early in phase two
• King county and Peirce county report a high number of Covid cases

Governor Inslee is speeding up phase two of reopening as he allows some of the counties to reope...

48% OF ILLINOIS’S COVID19 DEATHS ARE FROM NURSING HOMES

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• Illinois death and infection rates in nursing homes spike this week
• Accounted for infected covid19 cases at 11,437 and deaths at 1,553

Nursing outbreaks of coronavirus has claimed many lives and remains one of the focus areas for containm...

LYON: NURSING HOMES IN THE REGION REPORT MORE THAN 1,000 DEATHS

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• The city of Lyon is preparing itself for deconfinement, which is scheduled after May 11

• Highest number of deaths are reported from Nursing homes in the Rhone department

• Till date, total 2,307 people had died from the coronavirus

FLORIDA: ‘GOD’S WAITING ROOM' JOKE BY GOV. DeSANTIS SPARKS CONTROVERSY

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• At present, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has gone beyond 30,000

• The statement given by Governor DeSantis hasn’t gone well with majority of people

• Around 4.46 million people in Florida are above age of 65

39 COVID-19 DEATHS IN A NURSING HOME IN WA; PENALIZED FOR $611,000

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• State-run nursing home Life acre in focus
• A full-blown cluster of Covid-19 was not reported till after 2 weeks 
• Respiratory troubles brushed aside as seasonal influenza 

Lifecare centre, a nursing home in Kirkla...

COVID-19 KILLING ELDERS & CAREGIVERS IN NURSING HOMES

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• Nursing homes house elders who are most fatally prone to the virus 
• Lack of testing in these facilities is a big miss

It is a known fact that coronavirus now affects people of all the ages including infants. Yet it is the old o...

MORE MEN ARE PURSUING NURSING, STUDIES REVEALED

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-Nursing profession is dominated by women.

-People think men can’t be better caregivers.

-Increasing demand has forced medical centers to get more men onboard.

Since years, men have been restricted to ente...

Jacoby Titled ‘Rising Star’, by ENRS

The Eastern Nursing Research Society (ERNS), has presented Penn Nursing’s Sara Jacoby, PhD, the Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Community Health, a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and also the Center for Public Health Initiatives, with a Rising S...