Is your canine companion getting on in years? Well, in Japan you can send your geriatric best friend to the country’s first nursing home for dogs with round-the-clock monitoring by veterinarians, a pet products company said this week.
Penalties urged for docs in YouTube video
Gines said a fourth doctor and three other nurses were “sternly warned,” and a clinical instructor who supervised a group of nursing students from a local school who observed the operation was banned from the hospital. He said a nursing student …
Dealing with devastating pet injuries
She trained him as a therapy dog and he visited schools, hospitals and nursing homes. He loved to run and placed third in the local Weiner Dog race in 2005.
Happiest Americans are the oldest
While it didn’t include nursing home residents, only about 4 percent of Americans aged 75 to 84 are in nursing homes, Cornwell said. It’s all good news for the aging population. However, Yang’s study also found that baby boomers were the least happy …
Nursing home cuts decried (The Providence Journal)
PROVIDENCE Ninety-four-year-old Marie Baton trekked to the State House yesterday afternoon, possibly the oldest of several hundred advocates for the elderly who rallied to protest proposed cuts to nursing homes.
Nursing home IDs stolen (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Fourteen residents at two Northern Kentucky nursing homes couldn t figure out why they were being billed for large-screen televisions, clothes dryers and hundreds of thousands of dollars in electronics.
Comfy cushion doubles as flatulence filter
… have come the rescue with a seat cushion that also silences the sound and stanches the stink of breaking wind . The GasBGon, conceived by husband-and-wife team Jim and Sharron Huza he’s an air-quality and filtration engineer and she studied nursing …
North Jersey nursing homes among the nation’s priciest (The Star-Ledger)
New Jersey residents are digging deeper into their pockets for nursing home and assisted living care compared with people in other parts of the country, with costs expected to soar higher as the demand increases, according to a survey released yesterday.
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