Nursing Home Abuse
There are over 600 nursing homes in New York with 100,000 residents. These
nursing home residents are often frail, elderly, and unable to take care of
their basic needs. Nursing homes provide comfortable living conditions and maintain
health care services for all of their residents. But sometimes nursing homes
do not provide adequate care to their patients. As a result, nursing home abuse
afflicts hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Nursing home abuse is a serious concern. The most prominent places where elder
abuse occurs are nursing homes. Nobody wants to see his or her parents or grandparents
suffer from neglect and abuse in hospices and nursing homes for the elderly.
Elder abuse, according to the Welfare & Institutions Code, Section 15610.07,
is any "physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, abandonment, isolation,
abduction or other treatment with resulting in physical harm or pain or mental
suffering, or the deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that
are necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering."
There are many ways physical elder abuse can present itself, such as:
- Bed Sores
- Malnutrition
- Dehydration
- Bruises
- Broken Bones
- Poor Hygiene
Financial abuse may present itself by substantial losses of money is stored
accounts. Neglect, isolation, and abduction are difficult to observe, but you
can take preventative measures to assure that they do not happen to anyone.
- If an elderly loved one is put in a nursing home, make frequent trips to
see how they are doing.
- Ask them if they are being treated fairly and equally.
- Check them for signs of physical abuse.
If anyone you know has been a victim of nursing home abuse, or any kind of healthcare or medical malpractice, please contact us.
GET HELP- Contact our lawyers now if you think a severe violation or negligence has happened in nursing home care of someone you know or love. Suffering must be stopped.
Let our lawyers inform you of your legal options.
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