Former nurse, held over elder abuse case in Gifu Prefecture, may be linked to four other cases
A nurse who previously worked at a home for the elderly in central Japan was arrested Sunday for an alleged 2017 assault on a resident in her 90s, with police suspecting he was also involved in four other cases. Takeshi Odori, 33, is suspected to ...
Osaka nursing home manager, nurse face charges over fatal respirator shutoff
A nurse and the head of a nursing home in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, were referred to prosecutors Thursday on suspicion of professional negligence in connection with the death of a 68-year-old female resident whose artificial respirator was left turned off. According to the police, a ...
For elderly residents, city life doesn't get old
The government in Japan is facing an immediate demographic crisis with regards to seniors, whose numbers relative to the general population are increasing rapidly. One of the main problems is where they are going to live out their lives. According to a 2015 report by ...
More than 1,000 people still stranded in Iwate in typhoon's wake
An estimated 1,100 people remained stranded in eight municipalities in Iwate Prefecture and 17 were still missing late Thursday, two days after Typhoon Lionrock struck the region, killing 11. Police and Self-Defense Forces were rushing to rescue residents in the town of Iwaizumi, where the ...
Negligence suspected in death of Suita nursing home patient whose respirator had shut off
A female patient was found dead in a nursing home in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, after her artificial respirator had stopped working, prompting the Osaka Prefectural Police to launch an investigation into possible professional negligence. The police said Monday that a nurse making her rounds at ...
Three seniors fell from nursing home's verandas late last year; no suicide notes found
Three people in their 80s and 90s died over a two-month period last year after they fell from the veranda of their rooms at a nursing home in Kawasaki, according to the municipal government and the facility. The city instructed the facility, S Amiyu Kawasaki ...
A care worker was arrested Friday for allegedly using a knife to inflict several cuts on a 100-year-old woman at a nursing home in the city of Toyama, police said. Satomi Kamata, 22, of Toyama, is suspected of attacking the resident of Sanjuen Home on ...
Sitting around a table, a dozen elderly women watch affectionately as small children play next to them. When one opens her book, a little boy runs up and asks, "What are you reading?" It's a typical scene at Konoyubi Tomare, a day care facility in ...
Four elderly women died and another woman and a man remained unconscious Saturday after a fire broke out the evening before at a Nagasaki nursing home for patients suffering from dementia, police said. They were among 12 people aged between 56 and 95 who were ...
