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Mom Reading Newspaper at Work Discovers Her Son Was Waterboarded and Sodomized at Maine Care Home: 'I Was Devastated'

A Hampden, Maine mother whose son was a victim of abuse in an assisted living facility was shocked to learned the full extent of the abuse from a local newspaper.

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Mother Cuts 75-year-old Son's Inheritance By $20k Over Decades-old Unpaid Debt Before Passing Away

The man lives in an assisted living facility and claims to have repaid $5,000 to his mom. He is now exploring ways to receive the entire inheritance payout, even if that means amending his mother's old tax returns.

International Business Times UK

No backup required: Texas senior care depends on luck and wits to cope with heat after power outages

There’s no Texas requirement that nursing homes and assisted living facilities keep generators on hand to power air conditioning after storms.

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"I'm just noticing my fingers are getting a little harder to keep moving a lot”: 95-year-old Las Vegas pianist announces that it’s finally time for him to retire

Don Friend played his final show at the Atria Seville Assisted Living Center earlier this week

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Glynis Johns, who played Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins, dies aged 100

Briths actor and star of 1964 film died at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes on Thursday

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Millennials could soon see their parents become their biggest expense–and American families are woefully unprepared

Three out of four middle-income older Americans won’t have enough to pay for assisted living services without selling their homes within a decade.

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Senior Living Costs Spike, But What About the Value?

New study reveals that senior living facilities have rebounded from their pandemic staffing struggles but instead battle with matching added value to increased prices.

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Assisted living homes’ added fees are driving up consumer costs

These highly profitable facilities often charge $5,000 a month or more and then layer on fees at every step.

Chicago Sun-Times

Liz Weston: 5 surprising facts about assisted living

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Aardratheeram, an initiative of Kollam district panchayat in Kerala that offers assisted living facilities to autistic adults and their parents

Raising a child with special needs is not an easy task as the parents brave high levels of stress, risk of depression and anticipatory anxiety. Often, the biggest concern is ensuring the child’s welfare if the parent dies or becomes incapacitated, and not all families can afford to place them…

The Hindu

LGBTQ elders fear being re-closeted

Just 18% of long-term care communities have policies to protect residents based on their sexual orientation

Salon

Suspect arrested after shooting at Michigan assisted living home

Police say threat to Saline community is over

The Independent UK

A plan to cut Montana’s Medicaid waiting list was met with bipartisan cheers. Then a veto

Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pay for it themselves — a shortage she became aware of while searching for a suitable place for her mother to live.

Tribune News Service

Does Medicare pay for assisted living? Understand what's covered and your other options

Medicare covers the medical services that people in assisted living need, but does not pay for housing, room, food or other fees.

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The Independent UK

What if you can’t afford long-term care?

As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn’t afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years in a nursing home, according to a recent analysis

The Independent UK

In Kerala, an aging trend bucks India's booming population

In the past 60 years, the percentage of people age 60 and over in India's Kerala state has shot up from 5.1% to 16.5% — the highest proportion in any state

Evening Standard

Large fire sees 17 evacuated from assisted living facility

The fire impacted rush hour traffic on the A40

Manchester Evening News

‘I couldn’t read or write until I was 18 - now I’m Cambridge University's youngest Black professor’

Jason was told by therapists he would spend his adult life in an assisted living facility

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Care home cleared after pictures of beds covered in faeces and urine emerge

Manchester council concluded there was no evidence of neglect or abuse found at the Homeleigh assisted living facility in Crumpsall

Los Angeles Times

Tom Girardi’s dementia diagnosis likely to be battleground in criminal case

LOS ANGELES — Tom Girardi is expected to wake Monday morning in the memory care unit of an Orange County assisted living facility. After breakfast and the medications he has been prescribed for dementia and other ailments, the 83-year-old is to be driven to a downtown Los Angeles courthouse.

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Queensland pilot brings artificial intelligence to people in assisted living

The AI "care bots" can detect health hazards, and let people who are unable to speak or move freely to communicate what they need.

Tribune News Service

Assisted living facilities pressed to address growing needs of older, sicker residents

Assisted living communities too often fail to meet the needs of older adults and should focus more on residents’ medical and mental health concerns, according to a recent report by a diverse panel of experts.

Tribune News Service

Rural Colorado tries to fill health worker gaps with apprenticeships

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado — During her 12-hour overnight shift, Brianna Shelton helps residents at BeeHive Homes Assisted Living go to the bathroom. Many of them have dementia, and some can’t get out of bed on their own. Only a few can remember her name, but that doesn’t matter to her.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Side woman bilked out of $400,000 by financial adviser who used money to fund her film production company, lawsuit claims

“She moves into assisted living, and all of the sudden large checks start getting made payable to Canal Productions, checks running as high as $75,000,” said Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Abby: Elderly man’s daughters upset as he befriends my widowed mom

Relationship between the two assisted living residents seems to bring comfort to both of them, but it troubles the man’s adult children.

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