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A worker shortage is driving US nursing homes to the brink of collapse

Chippewa Manor’s beds could be full. The nursing and rehabilitation home is seeing plenty of demand from potential patients, after two nearby facilities recently closed. But there’s one problem: There’s no one to care for residents.

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Nursing home forced to close down because it can't get enough staff

'Despite our best efforts to attract qualified carers and nursing staff to the home we have been unable to solve this recruitment challenge'

Wales Online

Warning over 'unsafe' nursing home with residents at risk of 'avoidable harm'

The report was published last week and revealed management of medicine was unsafe

Liverpool Echo

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Ayr nursing home wins seal of approval from Care Inspectorate as key 'strengths' identified

Bellevue nursing home was graded as ‘very good’ by the Care Inspectorate following a visit.

Daily Record

Caring dad died after choking on 'almost raw' cauliflower he was fed at nursing home

“If you are looking after somebody who is in such a dependent position that you have to feed them then you must feed them food in a way that will not kill them"

Wales Online

Heartwarming therapy dogs make elderly residents' day in care home

Elderly residents at Redwalls Nursing Home in Cheshire love nothing more than a visit from therapy dogs Floyd and Loki, who bring laughter and joy wherever they go

Daily Mirror

Midlothian nursing home closed after damning inspection to be turned into housing

The nursing home did not have enough pain medication to provide adequate end-of-life care to dying residents and did not adequately check on sick residents who were self-isolating during the pandemic, a report revealed

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Aged care nurse Patricia Bergin suspended after breaching COVID-19 rules in Collie

An aged care nurse, who attended work at a nursing home while waiting for COVID-19 test results, will not be able to work for a year after her registration was suspended.

ABC News

‘I am filled with hate’: Kharkiv battle evokes memories of second world war

Residents at a Ukrainian nursing home recall how they helped the Russian army as it fought Nazi Germany in eastern city

The Guardian - UK

‘Poverty-level wages’: California workers fight to reform nursing homes

Union pushing for proposal to create board to oversee industry in wake of pandemic that has decimated staffing

The Guardian - US

Covid 'victim' pulled out of body bag alive moments before he was due to be cremated

An investigation is under way after a resident at a nursing home in Shanghai was arranged to be taken away for cremation before undertakers noticed his body bag was moving

Daily Mirror

Shanghai Officials Investigated After Nursing Home Resident Sent to Funeral Parlor Found Alive

In a viral video on Sunday, a voiceover from what appears to be a witness alleges that funeral home staff returned the senior resident to the nursing home, as the elderly person was found to be still alive

Caixin Global

Donbas nursing home residents evacuated after New Orleans fundraiser

Ukrainian expat raises money to rescue last 12 residents of hospice in Chasiv Yar on frontline of Russian invasion

The Guardian - UK

"Now I'll take the Government to court for my dad": Ruling on Covid deaths in care homes 'opens floodgates'

"They were trying to hide it, trying to stop it. Now I can seek justice for my dad. But it’s not just my father, it’s for the people who didn’t have a voice.”

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The Independent UK

Court says UK's nursing home COVID-19 policy was illegal

A British court has ruled that the government’s decision to discharge untested patients from hospitals into nursing homes early in the coronavirus pandemic was illegal

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania nursing home buyers would face more scrutiny under state health proposal

In the most complete revision of its nursing home rules in at least 25 years, the Pennsylvania Department of Health last month proposed new regulations that would require more scrutiny of homes’ prospective owners.

Asharq Al-Awsat

World's Oldest Person Dies in Japan at 119

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first…

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