WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) --Some patients' movement needs to be restricted in order to prevent them from hurting themselves or falling, or disrupting their own treatment. New research suggests, ...

Patients are less likely to be put in restraints when hospitals have more registered nurses on duty, new research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

DALLASTOWN — In the three years before his death in 2021, Harold Garretson fell more than 30 times in various central Pennsylvania care facilities. Angela Perkinson believes many of her father's ...

Julieta* grew weaker as her illness progressed. She was a frail, 4'11", elderly woman battling terminal cancer who began punching the air, trying to assert control over an unfamiliar reality. As her ...

It’s an uncomfortable image to consider: an elderly person – perhaps somebody you know – physically restrained. Maybe an aged care resident deemed likely to fall has been bound to his chair using ...

Caring for people living with dementia has always required balancing safety and autonomy: We often want autonomy for ourselves but safety for others; and that has historically prevailed in senior ...

Many hospitals compensate for a shortage of registered nurses with other staff, but researchers involved with the new study say the skill sets staff members possess appears to make a difference in how ...