We have posted numerous blogs on this website about elopement. As we have said many times, elopement typically refers to two people who have decided to travel to some location and get married, usually alone or with a small group of people, as opposed to having a large wedding. Elopement in the nursing home industry […]
We have written many times on this website about elopement. Elopement typically means when two people run off and get married in some remote location. Tragically, in the nursing home industry, elopement means when someone who cannot leave the facility safely, leaves the facility unattended. The winter weather creates a particular danger with respect to […]
What is elopement? Traditionally it's when two people go off and get married usually at some remote location. We say they eloped. Sadly, in the nursing home context, elopement has a very different meaning. This is a word that we use when someone leaves the nursing home unattended. Virtually all nursing home residents who need […]
The Warrensville Heights police are investigating the death of an elderly woman after she was found unresponsive outside of The Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center on Christmas Eve. According to the Warrensville Heights police report, an 84-year-old woman was last seen by a nurse at 8:40 p.m. on December 23, 2024. She was […]
If you say the word "elopement", most people think about a couple running off to get married. In the nursing home industry, elopement refers to a resident who leaves the nursing home unattended. Some nursing home residents are lucid. They may be in the nursing home for a variety of reasons. But they are permitted […]
A 92-year-old woman has died after authorities say she apparently wandered outside of the Bedford nursing home she was living in and fell down in the cold elements.
According to a police report, nurses from Woodside Senior Living on Rockside Road located Annie Lee Luckett\'s body around 6 a.m. Saturday. Luckett was a resident in the memory care unit and \"unable to care for herself.\" Officers believe she exited the building through an alarmed door without tripping the alarm, and eventually slipped on the ice, leaving herself unable to get up.
An 82-year-old woman reported missing from her assisted living facility on Tuesday, Nov. 8, was found dead in a wooded area behind the facility.
Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident at The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility at 209 Merriman Road in Akron.
An 82-year-old woman reported missing from her nursing home on Tuesday, Nov. 8, was found dead in a wooded area behind the facility. Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident of The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility at 209 Merriman Road in Akron, and had a history of dementia, according to […]
An 82-year-old resident of an Akron assisted living and nursing care facility was found dead from hypothermia in a wooded area behind the building Tuesday morning, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner. Joan Meredith had dementia and her death has left her loved ones devastated and confused. Read Full Article Here
