Blog: Nursing Home Abuse - Page 28

When making the decision to place a loved one in a nursing home, it is important to research your choices carefully. There are many ways to research nursing homes online; from reading reviews to websites offered by medicare and medicaid who provide detailed ratings on individual facilities. When researching the causes behind elder abuse in …

When making the decision to place a loved one into an assisted living or a nursing home, one should research the facility that they are considering. Make sure that they have all needed accreditation and licensing to be operating. One might also consider checking whether or not they are being or have been investigated by …

Making the decision to place a loved one into the care of a nursing or an assisted living facility is never an easy choice to make. With reports of nursing home abuse seeming to occur with regularity, choosing a facility is of the utmost importance. One must also take into consideration any contracts that are …

When people think of nursing home or elder abuse, most conjure images of unexplained bruising, soiled clothing and sheets, and bed sores. There is another type of elder abuse that occurs frequently and that is financial elder abuse. The financial abuse occurs when someone who has financial control of a senior’s assets takes the money …

One of the things that we look for when evaluating an elder abuse case is patterns. If a facility has a pattern of poor patient care, that lends strength to the case. Here’s a nursing home in California that appears to be falling into this category. A family whose relative died in a nursing home …

In many of our stories, elder abuse is a physical act like medical malpractice or battery, but there is another form of elder abuse that be just a troublesome. That’s financial elder abuse. An elder who finds themselves without any money to cover necessary medical expenses due to fraud will have nowhere to turn except …

One of the sneaky tricks that health care officials do is bind their patients and their families into arbitration agreements. Nursing homes are especially bad about this. What an arbitration agreement does is forbid the two parties from hearing about an abuse situation in court. Instead, it gets settled in private through an arbitration committee. …

It’s a common complaint from business owners that too much regulation stifles them, but when it comes to nursing homes and other health care facilities, that regulation can be the difference between the life or death of a patient. Which is why it’s shocking that Kentucky’s nursing home industry is demanding less oversight from state …

Medicine is an inherently risky business. Medical professionals want to do things that are in the best interests of the patient, but many cures often come with side effects that can compromise quality of life. Many people feel this after they take the flu vaccine. They may feel mildly sick for a day or two …

Many of the injuries and indignities that someone can suffer in a nursing home don’t come from the staff. Resident-on-resident abuse is surprisingly common. One of the roles of the staff is to prevent this from happening as much as they can, but just like the teachers in a school they can’t be everywhere at …