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Issues with medical credit cards are documented in a 2023 report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “Patients report being signed up without their consent or knowledge,” the report said.
Volunteers will guide dementia patients through a rotating schedule of music, movement, crafts, trivia, meals and a game of balloon volleyball. The program concludes with a dementia-friendly ...
A Philadelphia man has been arrested after allegedly stealing millions of dollars from an elderly woman with dementia and blowing the proceeds on plastic surgery among other luxuries. James Batt ...
SAN ANTONIO - Over two weeks ago 69-year-old Jose Luis Martinez disappeared while he was being cared for at Heavenly Hands Adult Day Center. His family says they have been searching for him every ...
The manager of a daycare centre for people with dementia has warned it will close within weeks unless it receives financial support. Endike Community Care, a registered charity based in Ashton ...
A New Jersey nurse renounced the Nightingale Pledge last month when she allegedly pepper-sprayed a helpless elderly dementia patient, police said. Licensed practical nurse Lisa Erikson ...
One research letter published in June 2024 in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at more than 200,000 patients and found long ER stays could be linked to a higher risk of dementia ...
TAYLOR, Mich. (WXYZ) — Twenty-eight-year-old Alyssa Patrias has been making her own greeting cards and handing them out to complete strangers since 2020. Her mother ...
A singing group that supports people diagnosed with dementia has celebrated its first anniversary. Volunteers and members of Let's Sing to Remember meet every two weeks at St Mary's Church Hall ...
The 88-year-old woman with dementia was found frozen in an outdoor courtyard of the facility. Gillette, Wyoming, police investigated the death of an 88-year-old assisted living patient found dead ...