Nursing Home Abuse

Elder Abuse in Georgia: How Attorneys Can Help Protect Your Loved Ones

Elder abuse is a multifaceted issue that encompasses a range of harmful behaviors against older individuals, often resulting in significant physical, and emotional harm. Understanding the types, prevalence, and settings where abuse can occur is crucial for prevention and intervention....
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How Nursing Home Neglect Lawyers Advocate for Victims and Families

When finding care for our loved ones in their golden years, we aim for the best. However, when the expected comforting care falls short, it can be daunting to address. This guide helps identify nursing home neglect, its various forms,...
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Steps to Take When Seeking Legal Help for Nursing Home Abuse in Georgia

Sadly, nursing home abuse is common in Georgia. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do something about it.  This article explains what to do in tough situations. It emphasizes knowing the law to protect and seek justice for our loved...
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Bed Sore Stages with Pictures

Bed Sore Stages with Pictures Understanding bed sore stages is important to keeping your loved one safe. Why? depending on the stage, bed sores may be a non-blanchable area of the skin or a massive hole in the body. It...
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Breast Cancer Surgery May Raise Death Risk If You’re In A Nursing Home

For most women, breast surgery is often one of the first courses of treatment for breast cancer. It often begins the path to being cancer-free. However, surgery is not always the best option for treatment. In some cases, the treatment...
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Woman Sues Nursing Home For Sexual Orientation Abuse

While staff at nursing homes may be responsible for many cases of abuse and neglect, there is another kind of abuse that is taking place in long-term care facilities. That is resident-on-resident abuse. A 2014 study at Cornell University found...
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Updated Rules For Dialysis Treatments Released By CMS

One of the fastest growing groups of patients requiring dialysis care is those who are aged 75 and older. For many of the elderly receiving dialysis, their care is done through either long-term care facilities or through in-patient treatments. Because...
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Assessing Dehydration Is Difficult According To New Report

When a recent nursing home death attributed to dehydration made national headlines, some nursing homes and parent companies began trying to find a way to accurately assess dehydration. Elderly people may be particularly susceptible to dehydration, especially those in understaffed...
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Untreated Foot Blister Leads To Nursing Home Death

For residents in long-term care facilities, conditions inevitably come up that require treatment above and beyond the long-term care they may be getting. Colds, bedsores, and other common infections may be common, but they generally pose no threat unless left...
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Fine To Nursing Home Reduced Due To Changing Administration Rules

The Trump administration has not been lauded for its stances on imposing fines to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. In fact, many in the industry believe that the lessening of fines and continuing to allow nursing homes to...
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