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September 8, 2006

Risk Management Challenges as Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Numbers Rise

With more dementia and memory-impaired residents to take care of, providers have to do more to safeguard their employees and residents from legal exposure. Besides falls and elopement, top risk management concerns are issues related to nutrition, weight loss, skin tears, bruises, burns, medication mismanagement, resident-to-resident altercations and screenings for pain or depression.

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