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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, [...]

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[...]

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[...]

Arkansas Living Assisted Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Woman Who Died In The Woods

November 25, 2022

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Woman Who Died In The Woods: The Estate of Barbara Doyle has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against The Brookfield Assisted Living and Memory Care at Highland Crossing and Brookfield Assisted Living LLC for the death of Doyle who was observed leaving the assisted liv[...]

Survey Finds 94% Of U.S. Nursing Homes Face Staffing Shortages

July 13, 2021

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) conducted a survey of 616 nursing homes and 122 assisted living communities across the U.S., inquiring about challenges they face in their workforce. The survey found that almost three-fourths of nursing homes a[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Fall Due To Crack In Assisted Living Sidewalk Not Health Care Liability Claim

May 26, 2021

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its split-decision En Banc Opinion filed on May 3, 2021: “Here, the standards on which Faber bases her claim do not implicate Collin Creek’s duties as a health care provider or its duties to [...]

Seattle Assisted Living Facility To Pay $8M To Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

April 24, 2021

The Associated Press (AP) reported that a Seattle assisted living facility’s insurance company has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the assisted living facility’s lax supervision of an employee resulted in the ability of the employee to repeatedly rape and sexually abuse a vu[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Does Not Allow Expert’s Net Opinion Against Assisted Living Facility

March 10, 2021

In its decision filed on February 5, 2021, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in an assisted living negligence case that “inspecting a patient’s room at least once per hour may well be a reasonable standard, depending on ho[...]

$6M Florida Assisted Living Wrongful Death Verdict

May 28, 2019

The family of a 97-year-old resident of a Florida assisted living facility received a verdict against the defendant Florida assisted living facility in the amount of $6 million in May 2019, for the death of the resident in 2017 after she fell outside the facility in the scorching July heat and no on[...]

Baltimore Assisted Living Home Licensed For Four But Housed Sixteen

March 15, 2017

A Baltimore assisted living home that was licensed for four beds actually housed sixteen residents, according to a Baltimore County police investigation. The Maryland Office of Health Care Quality initiated an investigation after the cousin of an 85-year-old resident of the Maryland assisted living [...]

Virginia Assisted Living Facility Sued For Failure To Protect Resident

November 14, 2013

On September 12, 2013, a lawsuit was filed in Virginia state court on behalf of a resident in a Virginia assisted living facility who allegedly was savagely attacked by another resident who was known to be violent. The 81-year-old woman, who has dementia, lived near to the resident who was known t[...]

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