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Combatting Elder Abuse in Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Monitoring

Bill of Health

One place where aging adults are likely to experience elder abuse occurs in long-term care (LTC) environments; this has been described as a “public health concern” in relation to the nursing home setting. In 2020, 15,000 complaints of abuse and neglect in nursing homes were reported to states’ ombudsmen across the U.S.,

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Jane Sarashon

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. 10 – or 4 in 10 ranking as “poor.” health system.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.

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