Nursing home staff face charges in abuse of elderly patients

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Nursing home staff face charges in abuse of elderly patients

By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Twenty-one current and former employees of a nursing home for Alzheimer's patients in Georgia, including its owner, face a total of more than 70 criminal charges for allegedly abusing elderly patients, authorities said Tuesday. The abuses included employees restraining patients with bed sheets and subjecting them to "inhumane and undignified conditions" at Alzheimer's Care of Commerce, about 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. ...

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