Havens for Elderly May Expose Them to Deadly Risks. Kevin McCoy and Barbara Hansen.
by McCoy, Kevin; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 57Family. Publisher: USA Today, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Background checks | Congregate housing | Employee screening | Employees -- Training of | Medication errors | Older people -- Health risk assessment | Older people -- Long-term care | Older people with disabilities | Risk assessmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When Louis Critelli's 91-year-old aunt starting forgetting to take her heart medication, he knew she couldn't live on her own anymore. Fiercely independent, Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn't consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Critelli coaxed the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation's growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1,100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce, and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills. Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident's prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded." (USA TODAY) This article reviews the results of the USA TODAY investigation that showed "that Rinaldi's death represents the tragic extreme in a pattern of mistakes and violations that lead to scores of injuries and occasional deaths among the estimated 1 million elderly residents of assisted living facilities."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Havens for Elderly May Expose Them to Deadly Risks, May 24, 2004; pp. n.p..
"When Louis Critelli's 91-year-old aunt starting forgetting to take her heart medication, he knew she couldn't live on her own anymore. Fiercely independent, Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn't consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Critelli coaxed the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation's growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1,100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce, and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills. Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident's prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded." (USA TODAY) This article reviews the results of the USA TODAY investigation that showed "that Rinaldi's death represents the tragic extreme in a pattern of mistakes and violations that lead to scores of injuries and occasional deaths among the estimated 1 million elderly residents of assisted living facilities."
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