Nursing Home Abuse

Your loved one deserves to live out their twilight years in dignity. You put them into a nursing home because neither you nor anyone else in your family could provide them with the care, treatment, and oversight they need. You had every reason to believe that caring, committed and staffed the nursing home and competent…

How Nursing Home Staff Shortages May Affect Your Loved Ones Concern over the abuse and neglect of nursing home residents has led to a startling discovery about a major contributing factor to these incidents. At least 95% of nursing homes are understaffed and that shortage of personnel may be the reason behind incidences of abuse…

Sepsis Infections are Killing Those you love in Nursing Homes Sepsis is caused by a serious infection and can become dangerous if left untreated. Medical attention is necessary as soon as possible after symptoms develop. When warning signs are ignored, the infection can quickly become deadly especially in older adults. A nursing home injury lawyer…

Millions of people make the difficult to decision to put their loved ones in a nursing home. These people trust that their loved ones will be well taken care of. However, nursing home abuse is a common occurrence. If you have a loved one who is in a nursing home, then you will need to…

It’s an emotional and painful decision when we’re faced with placing our parents or another family member in a nursing home. Once you make a decision on a facility, you trust that it’s a secure and friendly place that will provide the degree of care that your family member requires. Sometimes that trust is violated,…

The family of an elderly woman who was sexually assaulted during her time as a resident in a nursing home in Akron, Pennsylvania. was awarded $7.5 million by a Lancaster jury. After four hours of deliberation, the jury founded the Garden Spot Village facility and its parent company were over 85% liable for the sex…

An extremely disturbing video has surfaced from a hidden camera placed by a concerned family member in a Detroit nursing home earlier this week. Elderly patient, Salim Younes had been under the care of Autumnwood facility, after bowel obstruction surgery in 2015. Prior allegations had fallen on deaf ears, his son Hussein had felt, until…

Senior citizens in need of care and reside in nursing homes are being abused by the very people that are paid to take care of them. This atrocity is occurring at an alarming rate in our country. There are currently over three million adults living in elderly care facilities in the United States. On average,…