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Posted on: August 11, 2015. Category: News, Nursing Home Abuse

One major concern about nursing homes is the use of anti-psychotic medication. These drugs do have their uses in patients with mental illness, but some facilities have used them for off-label purposes or to control behavior. The government has been taking steps to reduce the number of anti-psychotic medication prescriptions, and the numbers are promising. …

Posted on: August 6, 2015. Category: News

As our bodies decline, we may need help in certain behaviors that we can’t do on our own anymore. One of these may be eating or swallowing. It is part of a nursing home’s job to monitor patients while they eat to prevent choking hazards. A nursing home in California was fined the maximum amount, …

Posted on: August 4, 2015. Category: News, Nursing Home Abuse

One way that families may try to draw attention to the problems in a nursing home is to talk to the media. Putting public pressure on a nursing home can get them to clean up their act, or uncover evidence that can be used in a later lawsuit. One nursing home in Minnesota got a …

Posted on: July 30, 2015. Category: News, Nursing Home Abuse

Nurses are only human. Mistakes can happen. But when nurses try to cover up their mistakes then that can lead to pain and suffering for residents in nursing homes. One of the ways modern facilities try to keep mistakes from happening is using electronic medical records. Yet even these can be falsified. A nurse was …

Posted on: July 28, 2015. Category: News

A situation doesn’t need to be extreme for a elder care abuse case to proceed. What has to be proven is that the facility breached their duty of care. Allowing problems to develop in a patient’s care and go unaddressed is the problem. A case filed in Illinois by an executor claims multiple reasons for …

Posted on: July 23, 2015. Category: News

What happens when a nursing home is understaffed or has poor security? Bad things. It’s a sad fact that many elderly people do not like their nursing homes. They feel like they’re in a prison and may try to seek a way to escape. If they are suffering from dementia, they may truly believe that …

Posted on: July 21, 2015. Category: News

There are two main types of damages awarded in civil cases. The first type is called actual damages. This is the monetary value of the damages in the suit. For instance, the cost of final expenses, medical bills, or lost wages. Then there are punitive damages. This is an extra fine levied on the offending …

Posted on: July 16, 2015. Category: News

One of the frustrations we sometimes encounter is when a client truly believes that abuse is happening to their loved one but there is not enough proof to bring a suit forward. One family in Minneapolis came up with a creative way to catch nursing home abuse in the act. The family members set up …

Posted on: July 14, 2015. Category: Atlanta, News

In order for a nursing home to receive funding from the federal government, it has to meet certain requirements for care. These care guidelines haven’t been updated in 24 years. Now the Obama administration is proposing new rules that nursing homes must meet. The changes are estimated to cost nursing homes an extra $40,000 a …

Posted on: July 9, 2015. Category: News

People with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other degenerative diseases may try to wander around. Wandering can put them at great risk because they are unaware of their surroundings. Residents with these conditions are placed into special wards with extra security, but sometimes they escape anyway. Nursing homes should do more than just prevent escapes. They should …

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