Family sues after assisted living resident wanders, dies
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2016
The adult children of a man who had dementia are suing the assisted living community where he lived, maintaining that lack of supervision at an outing led to his disappearance and death.
OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 23, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting additional comments as it works to establish a final rule meant to protect assisted living and other healthcare workers from exposure to COVID-19...
Retirement community’s food director recorded men in employee locker room, police say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 16, 2017
The food director at a Connecticut continuing care retirement community has lost his job and is facing three counts of voyeurism after allegedly installing a video camera and surreptitiously recording...
Law prohibiting employers from asking job applicants about salary history takes effect
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 01, 2019
An Illinois law that bans employers from asking job applicants about their salary histories goes into effect today. The law, an amendment to the state Equal Pay Act of 2003, is meant in part to help address...
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Jun 21, 2019
Provider to pay almost $1 million to settle meal break, shift violation claims … GAO suggests Congress consider legislation about the future federal role in housing finance … Pennsylvania CCRC adds...
Attempted murder charge stems from senior living community incident
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 26, 2019
A man has been charged with attempted murder for an incident involving a worker at a Tennessee assisted living and memory care community in which windows at the community also reportedly were damaged.
Attempted firebombing of assisted living community yields 5-year prison sentence
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 16, 2022
A Massachusetts man was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for placing a lit firebomb at the driveway entrance to an assisted living community in April 2020 and then lying to the FBI about his whereabouts...
Man sentenced to 7 years in prison for $20 million scams against older adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 13, 2018
A Las Vegas resident has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $2.8 million in restitution after pleading guilty to running prize promotion scams that defrauded thousands...
Man arrested in assassination of Haiti’s president has ties to U.S. senior living industry
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 12, 2021
One of the two Americans arrested in relation to the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday worked for a major U.S. senior living company until earlier this year, and another major...
GAO: Protecting healthcare workers from violence should be priority for new administration
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 13, 2016
Protecting healthcare workers, including those employed in residential care settings, from workplace violence should be a priority for the new administration, the Government Accountability Office said...