There’s a longstanding notion in healthcare that patients with low-acuity conditions are a key driver of overcrowding and boarding in emergency departments — one that emergency medicine experts ...

Among the issues that led to patient deaths, according to critical incident reports from the first nine months of 2024, were bed rail entrapment, delays in receiving medical diagnosis and ...

Bed sores can be a serious danger for older adults and anyone who spends most ... be on the lookout for them when caring for a bedbound patient, those efforts in preventing bedsores will pay ...

Kara Alexander, 47, of Cornwallis Road, Dagenham, east London, was found guilty of murdering Elijah Thomas, two, and Marley Thomas, five, in the bath at their ... their shared bed dressed in ...

The U.S. excels in some aspects of older adult care but falls short in others, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey published April 9. The survey, conducted in 2024, involved 16,737 adults 65 ...

A total of 453 patients are waiting for beds in Irish hospitals, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Trolley Watch. This includes 299 patients on trolleys in emergency ...

A total of 453 patients are waiting for beds in Irish hospitals, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Trolley Watch. This includes 299 patients on trolleys in emergency ...

He stays at my house a couple of nights a week, and there have been three separate occasions when he has wet the bed; however, he doesn’t know that I know he wet the bed. I feel bad because I ...

Urban Air Adventure Park recently opened at 10050 W. Broad St., a former Bed Bath & Beyond store in the western part of the county. The 42,000-square-foot park features trampolines, rock climbing, ...

A homeless woman with lung cancer is sleeping on a makeshift bed in her friend's living room because she says the accommodation offered by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is ...

In this context, direct patient caregivers, including home health aides, will be indispensable for delivering consistent, compassionate cancer care — particularly for older adults, patients ...