Twenty nursing homes in Tennessee have had their admissions suspended following a series of violations, an article in the Tennessean pointed out today. The article did not detail what the violations are, but several people quoted in the article said that if admissions have been suspended, then some bad things have gone on at these places. Industry representatives counterd in the article saying that it doesn't necessarily mean that things are worse at TN nursing homes, just that the inspections are getting tougher. I hope that is the case, but in my opinion, any violations are too many.
Elder care is one of my interests; in fact I would like to use my law degree in this area. Even if I can't practice full time, I would like to help the elderly on a pro bono basis. My main goal would be to try to help them stay in their homes. Sometimes the elderly need to go into nursing homes, but I think it should be the last resort. THE LAST RESORT.
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The other day when I posted about Sarah Des Prez and the fact that they have caught the man who they think murdered her, I almost closed the post with the words, "And maybe they will solve Marcia Trimble's murder case soon too. Marcia was a young girl who was also murdered in 1975, when she was in her Green Hills neighborhood selling Girl Scout Cookies. It was a terrible murder, and one that rocked Nashville to its core. Strangely enough, there is some suspicion now that the same man might have committed both murders. The man was a landscaper, which might have put him in the Green Hills area. But still there were some facts about the case that would seem to point away from a perpertrator like this..........
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On another sad note is the suicide of the young girl in Dardenne Prairie, MO. She hung herself after being harassed by a boy she liked, who then turned on her online. Turns out there was no boy, but the harassers were the parents of a classmate who lived down the street. How awful is that? Shame on those adults who reportedly don't seem very remorseful either. At first, there was no law these perps could be charged with. Now the town has passed a law making online harassment a crime. Best line from the article was a quote from the town's mayor: "after all, harassment is harassment, regardless of the mechanism or the tool."
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