CBS Evening News - 2001-07-30 (bad video)

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[0:00] and what new dangerous escalation of the

[0:03] US Iraq air War uncovers documents that

[0:17] [Music]

[0:19] Ral CBS news with Dan reporting from CBS

[0:24] News headquarters in New

[0:26] York there is about abuse of the elderly

[0:29] and America's nursing homes ongoing CBS

[0:32] News investigations have repeatedly

[0:34] turned up evidence of such abuse now

[0:37] Congressional investigators out with a

[0:39] new report of their own among their key

[0:41] findings abuse at more than 250 homes

[0:45] Nationwide put some cases caused actual

[0:48] deaths cbs's Bill Whitaker has the facts

[0:51] and followup for

[0:53] you families turned nursing home to give

[0:55] the

[0:57] thetion a congressional report out today

[1:00] says, 1600 us nursing homes nearly

[1:03] onethird have been cited for abuse

[1:06] including injuries sexual abuse even

[1:08] death the idea that that residents and

[1:11] nursing homes would live in fear of

[1:13] abuse and not be able to communicated to

[1:16] others and that the nursing homes aren't

[1:18] watching enough to catch this sort of

[1:20] thing it just seems to me unconscionable

[1:23] Congressional investigators found one in

[1:25] five nursing homes failed to report

[1:27] incidents or even make sure staffers had

[1:29] no history of abuse in almost 8%

[1:32] residents suffered actual harm and in

[1:35] 256 homes across the country the abuse

[1:38] was so serious it put elderly lives in

[1:41] Jeopardy or actually resulted in death

[1:44] it's a shocking reality for thousands of

[1:46] older Americans a trend CBS News first

[1:49] reported last year was the story of

[1:51] Helen love she was attacked by a

[1:53] certified nurses assistant at a

[1:55] Sacramento facility he was angered that

[1:57] she' soiled herself

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