A proposed change in state law to require assisted living facilities to report resident altercations to the state Health Department and allow residents to have cameras in their rooms appears doomed at ...

The new rules follow a yearlong series of stories by The Arizona Republic exposing widespread violence in assisted living facilities.

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Arizona assisted living companies are resisting new regulations designed to improve memory care for residents with dementia. The regulations, prompted by a Republic investigation, would mandate ...

She'd been beaten with two wire hangers. Bernadine Wick, a 93-year-old woman with short gray hair and wire glasses, sat hunched in her wheelchair in the hall outside her room, her hands covered in ...

The latest ValuePenguin study finds just 16 states provide four or more nurse staffing hours per resident daily despite higher federal recommendations. Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, staffing ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Dozens of families are left scrambling this Thanksgiving weekend after a senior living facility informed them their loved ones must move out soon, which means finding movers and a ...

Nearly one-quarter of Arizona’s medical marijuana licenses are held by individuals over 60. Yet the right to be administered marijuana and marijuana-derived medicines in Arizona’s assisted living ...

An assisted living facility under state scrutiny after the death of a resident last year was recently sold to a new owner.

Gracie the chicken regularly visits Good Samaritan Society – Willow Wind Assisted Living in Prescott, Arizona, with her owner, the activities director of the facility Gracie the chicken has become a ...