Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Nursing homes can only offer so much care on-site. When an emergency happens, the elderly people who are suffering need to be taken to a hospital so that they can get proper care from medical professionals. Of the utmost importance is getting to the hospital in a...

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Sometimes, seeking full-time care is the best thing for your loved ones. Scarily, though, abuse against residents in nursing homes is all too prevalent. While you can’t always be present, there things you can do to help lessen the possibility of abuse. The Nursing...

Neglect is, sadly, one of the most common ways that elderly adults experience abuse in nursing homes. While neglect can be both intentional and unintentional, it is unacceptable either way. The Nursing Home Abuse Center categorizes elder neglect in three ways:...

Your elderly parent has always been happy and expressive for as long as you can remember. Even when they started having trouble living alone, it did not dampen their spirits. Neither did the initial move to the nursing home. Now, though, six months into their stay,...

Finding your parents, or helping them find, a nursing home is a huge responsibility. You’ll want to make sure they land in just the right place — one that fulfills the needs for their care and where the staff treats them with respect. Given Florida’s large population...

Resident-to-resident abuse is a lesser-known form of elder abuse in nursing homes, but one could argue that this form is more troubling due to its obscurity. Resident-to-resident abuse is a concern for individuals with parents or family members in long-term care...

When your parents go into a nursing home facility, you trust the nurses and staff to provide them with proper care and treatment. Along with that care is ensuring they receive the medication they need to stay healthy and comfortable. Unfortunately, some workers may...

Nursing homes are environments that have multiple, at-risk individuals who may have compromised immune systems due to age or other pre-existing medical conditions. In other words, nursing homes and similar facilities are a perfect environment for the spread of...

Your loved one has developed Alzheimer’s disease, and you know that it is only a matter of time before they’ll need to be in a nursing home. One thing you should start looking into now is a memory care unit. Unlike a traditional nursing home, a memory care-focused...