One in six residents of assisted living facilities is subject to verbal, physical or other aggression by fellow residents in a typical month, and those suffering from dementia are most at risk, new research finds in the first large-scale study of the phenomenon.
Involving 930 residents of 14 licensed assisted living facilities in New York state, the study, published May 3 in JAMA Network Open, found incidents of resident-to-resident aggression, also called resident-to-resident...
