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South Carolina Assisted Living And Memory Care Facility Sued For Alleged Assault

October 26, 2026

John Carlton Sease passed away peacefully on September 4, 2024, just days before his 81st birthday. A loving husband, father, grandfather, and veteran, John was known for his warmth, quiet wit, and steady kindness. Born in Oakland, California on September 13, 1943, John was a graduate of Hargrave Mi[...]

Federal Spending And Medicaid Coverage For Assisted Living Facilities

September 15, 2026

Assisted Living Facilities Assisted living facilities provide a residential alternative to in-home care and nursing homes for people who need assistance with activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, and toileting. Assisted living facilities provide room and board, which includes housing, [...]

Older Americans More Often Choosing Assisted Living Communities Than Nursing Homes

July 16, 2026

AARP Public Policy Institute reports that assisted living communities provide residential, community-based care to older adults and people with disabilities where nearly 1 million people live and receive care. More than half are age 85 and over (from 408,000 in 2020 to 522,000 in 2022), with residen[...]

$110M Assisted Living Verdict For Death Due To Hyperthermia

July 12, 2026

A Sacramento County California jury awarded $110 million to the family of a woman who died of hypothermia after she wandered outside the Greenhaven Estates in Sacramento, an assisted living facility, where she had been a resident for more than five years because she was suffering from Alzheimer̵[...]

AARP Report Finds Worsening Long-Term Care Affordability

May 12, 2026

AARP issued a report in March 2026 entitled “Long-Term Services and Supports Are Becoming Even More Unaffordable for Middle-Class Americans stated: “A recent analysis for the US Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 56 percent of people turning 65 between 2021 and 2025 w[...]

Nearly One-Third Of Assisted Living Facilities That Received COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Payments Failed To Comply With Requirements

February 12, 2026

Congress appropriated $178 billion to HHS to provide funds to eligible providers for health care-related expenses or lost revenues attributable to COVID-19 under the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) program. HHS was responsible for initial PRF program oversight and policy decisions, and the Health Resourc[...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms No Punitive Damages Against Assisted Living Facility

January 22, 2026

Dana Jones’s mother, Doscina Pendleton, was an elderly, terminally ill woman under hospice care, residing in the memory care unit of Truewood By Merrill (“Truewood”), an assisted living facility, from December 31, 2018 until she passed away on December 25, 2020. On the night of her[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff In Claim Against Assisted Living Facility Not Entitled To Qualified Protective Order Regarding Notice Of Defendant’s Meetings With Her Medical Providers

February 3, 2025

Plaintiff filed a Michigan medical malpractice case against the defendant assisted living facility for injuries she sustained on May 20, 2020, when another resident at defendant’s assisted living facility allegedly caused plaintiff to fall. During the discovery process, defendant requested that th[...]

222,000 Adult Portable Bed Rails Recalled Due To Serious Entrapment And Asphyxia Hazards; One Death Reported

January 17, 2025

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Home 4U, Inc., dba. Medical King, of Brooklyn, New York, announced on November 14, 2024 the recall of three models of Medical King Bed Assist Rail adult portable bed rails. The recalled bed rails pose a risk of entrapment and asphyxia because us[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Removal Of COVID-19 Assisted Living Case To Federal Court Was Improper

January 9, 2025

In October 2019, Sara Schleider was admitted as a patient at an assisted living facility owned and operated by Defendants. Around May 9, 2020, she contracted COVID-19 at Defendants’ facility and died soon after . Plaintiffs, as representatives for Sara Schleider’s estate, asserted survival and w[...]

Florida Appellate Court Reinstates Resident-On-Resident Assault Case Against Assisted Living Facility

December 15, 2024

Background Facts In May of 2018, Maria M. Mosher was admitted into the defendant assisted living facility, Sumter Place in the Villages, located in Sumter County, Florida. During her stay, Mosher was placed in the facility’s memory care unit. On April 2, 2019, while still in the memory care unit, [...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Order Arbitration Of Negligence Claims Against Assisted Living Facility

January 25, 2024

Cecil Kepner brought a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit in his individual capacity and as successor in interest to his mother Darlene Kepner (“Darlene”) against the owners and operators of the Oakmont Senior Living Facility, where Darlene had been a resident. Darlene had fallen at t[...]

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