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• CPSC Warns 18 Deaths Linked to Portable Bed Rails Over Past 3 Years

  November 20, 2024

  Michael Adams

  Following nine portable bed rail recalls since 2021, federal regulators have issued an urgent warning regarding the adult assistance products.

• Neglect Has Been Linked to Thousands of Assisted Living Facility Elopements, Deaths: Report

  December 20, 2023

  Irvin Jackson

  More than 2,000 assisted living residents have eloped from facilities nationwide since 2018, resulting in about 100 estimated deaths.

• Assisted Living Bedsore Lawsuit Results In $12.5M Verdict Against Florida Facility

  February 23, 2023

  Russell Maas

  A Florida jury has awarded $12.5 million to a woman whose mother died due to complications from a massive bedsore which developed just two months after she was put in an assisted living facility.

• Efforts to Prevent Use of Chemical Restraints in Assisted Living Fail, Even As Nursing Home Use Drops: Study

  August 29, 2022

  Martha Garcia

  A new study finds the same tactics for reducing chemical restraint use in nursing homes does not seem to work in assisted living facilities.