When something happens in a nursing home, the patient often gets on-site care first. However, this is often not enough to care for larger medical emergencies that older individuals tend to experience. To that end, rapid hospital care is a crucial aspect of an older...
When your loved one moves into a nursing home, you expect that he or she will have the best possible care. Unfortunately, some caregivers break you and your family's trust with abuse and neglect. Senior Caring cites that one out of 10 seniors experiences elder abuse....
Bedsores are a skin condition that can result when a person spends most of his or her time immobilized in a bed or a wheelchair. They also go by names such as pressure sores or decubitus ulcers. If a resident of a nursing home develops multiple bedsores, it could be a...
When people hear stories about elder abuse in Florida, they often think of the victims as helpless and unable to defend themselves. Even though this may be truer in some situations than others, seniors can learn to defend themselves from perpetrators of abuse....
One of the more common reasons why people neglect to report elder abuse in Florida is the fear that no one will believe them. Others worry that inadequate evidence will prevent authorities from recognizing any wrongdoing which could increase victims' risks of further...
As people get older, they may become increasingly vulnerable to physical, sexual or financial abuse. However, there are steps that you can take in an effort to protect a loved one from experiencing such hardships in their lives. For instance, you could schedule...
Many seniors retire to Florida due to its weather as well as its relatively low cost of living. While many people think of elder abuse as something that occurs in nursing homes, elder abuse can occur anywhere, and it can happen in many different forms. It can be...
Under Florida law, each judicial district can create an elder abuse fatality review team. This team reviews nursing home deaths, especially those in suspicious circumstances. These non-mandatory teams comprise people with experience in elder law: nurses, judges,...
For many families, it may not always be feasible to visit a loved one living in a nursing home. Whether this is due to distance or current social climates, you may be unable to consistently visit your elderly parents, or other family members, who reside in these...
Finding the right health care facility in Florida for those needing around-the-clock attention is getting more difficult by the day. Nursing homes are typically over-populated with residents and under-staffed at the same time, which often does not bode well for those...
