Nursing Homes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously mocked the cosmopolitan elites of his day for concealing with “gilt and tinsel” their moral deformities. “The honest man is an athlete,” he wrote, “who loves to...

The urgency of vaccinating nursing home residents is evident in the numbers. The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 136,000 residents and employees of long-term care facilities...

Nursing home residents worldwide are particularly vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19. In the U.S. as of Aug. 2, 2020, nearly 46,000 nursing home residents had died from the virus....

Over 80 per cent of Canada’s COVID-related deaths are associated with nursing homes, with the majority of them being older persons living with dementia. Moreover, recent international research suggests that...

House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said Thursday she was “incredibly proud” of how New York handled the coronavirus outbreak in nursing homes and said the federal government should be...

Some nursing home facilities say protective gear provided through federal agencies is unusable as it does not meet regulatory inspection standards, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Federal Emergency...

The coronavirus pandemic has posed a serious threat to the U.S. long-term care industry. A third of all deaths have been nursing home residents or workers – in some states...

As lockdowns ease and more people begin to leave their homes on a regular basis, there’s still one group that is often singled out as needing to remain isolated: people...

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted misleading statistics on nursing home deaths Wednesday to defend his approach to nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo has faced criticism for...

Physicians, health care experts and the media spent considerable time focused on hospital capacity since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Nursing homes received less attention, until thousands of deaths revealed a...

In New York state, 19 nursing homes have each reported 20 or more deaths from COVID-19. A nursing home in New Jersey reported 70 deaths out of its 500 residents....

As the numbers climb for those infected with the novel coronavirus, the dangers rise for vulnerable populations. People who are older or with underlying medical conditions risk the severest consequences,...