Nursing Home Abuse Law
A nursing home lawsuit can help with all the suffering and abuse that has taken place with someone you know or love. Nursing home abuse is one of the nation's largest growing problems. Estimated one in three nursing homes are reported for nursing home abuse, a number thought grossly underestimated. This statistic is frightening, especially considering instances of nursing home abuse are so severe reports of death, broken bones, beating, and complete neglect occurred. Nursing home abuse potentially affects the 1.6 million nursing home residents, and with the number of residents estimated to reach 5 million in 30 years the problem of nursing home abuse must be solved.
Some common types of nursing home abuse and/or neglect:
Lack of proper nutrition and dehydration
Physical abuse of the resident
Elopement
Verbal humiliation
Emotional exploitation
Bedsores due to lack of attention of residents in bed
Nursing home abuse can occur in many different ways. Many people
associate nursing home abuse to just physical, however
nursing home
abuse can also be emotional, psychological, sexual, verbal,
and neglect.
Watching for signs of nursing home abuse can help prevent
further damage
from occurring because in many instances residents are
afraid to
disclose that nursing home abuse is happening. Some residents
feel
reporting the nursing home abuse will make them a burden
to their
families or they have been threatened and fear the nursing
home abuse
will grow worse.
Nursing home abuse has been largely attributed to underpaid, under
trained and high turn over rate employees. In addition,
families of
nursing home abuse victims were shocked to learn that a
majority of
nursing home abuse perpetrators had a history of past nursing
home abuse
yet this had not stopped them for being hired.