Violent Alzheimer's patients in South Carolina routinely are turned away from nursing homes, leaving these fragile people and their families with few options, experts on the disease say.
Dwayne Walls had been a wanderer for most of his 76 years; most journalists have this vagabond gene. And on a stormy night last September, Walls wandered down a hallway in the Veterans' Victory House, a large nursing home near Walterboro.
HMR Advantage's nursing homes in South Carolina often score good marks on state inspections, but in Alabama, the state-owned home HMR Advantage runs for veterans was the subject of a federal probe.
