One day we may all face the prospect of being in a nursing home. Stop nursing home abuse in its tracks.<\/p>\n
The number of elderly people who are being admitted to nursing homes and long-term care facilities is increasing every year, and has since 1994. Stop and think about that for a minute then do some research on the Internet to try and figure out how many nursing homes are in the US today.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust to save you some time, there are over 16,100 nursing homes in the US today with an occupancy rate of 86%. All that translates into 1.7 million beds. Anyway you look at it, that is a lot of people in nursing homes being cared for by people they don\u2019t know. You will likely get a better picture of why nursing home abuse is so prevalent these days when you consider those numbers, which doesn\u2019t make it acceptable at (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One day we may all face the prospect of being in a nursing home. Stop nursing home abuse in its tracks. The number of elderly people who are being admitted to nursing homes and long-term care facilities is increasing every…<\/span><\/p>\n