Most Popular Senior Care Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Senior Care Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Nursing Homes Struggle With Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Jul 14 2025 // Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration. Facilities for older adults and disabled people...
#2 Federal Jury Awards $405K Verdict Against Florida Senior Living Facility
May 20 2025 // A federal jury awarded $405,083 to a veteran in a disability discrimination case against a St. Petersburg, Florida, senior living facility and its operating companies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
#3 Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Takes 9 Lives, Injures 30
Jul 14 2025 // Nine people have died in a fire at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, where people were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were injured. Firefighters responded...
#4 Minnesota Senior Living Facility Fined $73K for Pregnancy Discrimination
Apr 23 2025 // White Pine Senior Living, an assisted living facility in Minnesota, has agreed to pay $73,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
#5 Lawsuits Pile Up for a Nursing Home Empire Built Despite State Investigations
Nov 26 2025 // In February 2024, a Los Angeles County jury awarded $2.34 million to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the facility had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious...
#6 Post-Mortem Begins of Assisted-Living Fire That Killed 9 in Massachusetts
Jul 15 2025 // Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who leaned out of windows and screamed for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30...
#7 Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations
Jul 10 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations...
#8 Maryland AG Vows to Protect Seniors in Assisted Living, Workers Denied Full Wages
Jan 10 2025 // Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown is making legislation protecting seniors in assisted living facilities and enforcement of fair wages and safe working conditions for workers as priorities for 2025. Additionally,...
#9 Michigan Adult Care Company to Pay $170K in EEOC Lawsuit
Jan 21 2025 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, will pay $170,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission...
#10 Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
#11 Massachusetts Assisted Living Home Had Been Cited for Late Safety Reports
Jul 16 2025 // A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents, according to regulators’ most recent review of...
#12 Four Gabriel House Residents Sue Over Assisted Living Facility’s Deadly Fire
Aug 5 2025 // Two lawsuits have been filed over the tragic fire at a Fall River, Massachusetts assisted living facility that took the lives of 10 residents and injured 30 others on July 13, making it the state’s deadliest...
#13 Nursing Home Bailouts. Why Vermont Has Given Millions to Keep Them Afloat
Jan 2 2026 // With the second-oldest population in the country, Vermont needs its nursing homes. Yet, while Vermonters rapidly age, the state’s long-term care capacity has dwindled, losing 900 beds in the last two decades. To keep...
#14 Senior Facility Owner and Inspector Sue Each Other Over Faulty Sprinklers in Deadly Fire
Dec 11 2025 // A safety inspection company and the owner of a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that was the site of a fire in July that killed 10 people are blaming each other for failing to address a faulty sprinkler...
#15 Assisted Living Facility Where 10 Died in Fire Was Cited for Mistreatment
Aug 4 2025 // A Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fire killed 10 people earlier this month temporarily lost its certification nearly a decade ago due to resident mistreatment, according to state regulators. The documents...
#16 Explosion at Nursing Home in Pennsylvania Kills Two, Injures Others
Dec 24 2025 // An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation. The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab...
#17 Massachusetts Survey Identifies Safety Issues for Assisted Living Residences
Oct 29 2025 // Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey cited the results of a survey on safety of all 272 assisted living residences (ALRs) in the state in announcing actions to enhance the safety of ALR residents. In July, following the...
#18 Neglect, Abuse Common at Michigan Nursing Homes, Report Finds
Jan 7 2026 // The plea was desperate: Help! Lorena Brown gasped for air on Sept. 12, 2022, turning blue, at the SKLD Muskegon nursing home. Her roommate called for help from a nurse. The response: “Mind your own...
#19 A Look at Senior Care Liability Claims
Sep 8 2025 // The average indemnity payments paid for senior care facilities have more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to Liberty Mutual/Ironshore’s inaugural Senior Care Claims Study, which examined senior care...
#20 Advocates Want Public Involvement When Nursing Homes Change Ownership
Nov 4 2025 // Some of the most sizable and troubled nursing homes in the state of Vermont have struggled for much of this year to provide sufficient care under new ownership, logging violations that included a death, injuries and...
